Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn’t – though he couldn’t – ever love me back.”

— Lauren Oliver

302. “Y todo me parece absurdo, arbitrario. Una se eleva y la otra cae en picado: pura casualidad, un capricho del azar. Todo se reduce a estar en el momento y el lugar adecuados, o no estarlo.”

— Lauren Oliver

303. “Walking into parties always gives me a crampy feeling at the bottom of my stomach. Its a good feeling though: The feeling of knowing anything can happen. Most of the time nothing does, of course. Most of the time one night blends into the next, and weeks blend into weeks, and months into other months. And sooner or later we die.”

— Lauren Oliver

304. “As I lie there with the hurt driving through my chest and the sick, anxious feeling churning through me and the desire for Alex so strong inside of me it’s like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don’t care.”

— Lauren Oliver

305. “I’m used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.”

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306. “Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.”

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307. “A name that brings a taste of sunshine, and of sunshine raising mist from the trees, and of mist reaching toward the sky.”

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308. “For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.”

— Lauren Oliver

309. “This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb.”

— Lauren Oliver

310. “Perfect. There’s the word again: a locked-door word – stifling, strangling.”

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311. “There are some losses we never get over.”

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312. “I don’t understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.”

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313. “She didn’t realize how much depends on what you’re remembered for. Sometimes, it’s so much better to be forgotten.”

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314. “We’re killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.”

— Lauren Oliver

315. “I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.”

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316. “That thing – the heart of hearts of me, the core of my core – stretches and unfurls even further, soaring like a flag: making me feel stronger than I ever have before. I.”

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317. “My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.”

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318. “If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing...”

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319. “Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.”

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320. “The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do is run.”

— Lauren Oliver

321. “Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who’s with who and did you hear.”

— Lauren Oliver

322. “Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.”

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323. “I suppose, in some sense, wills are like maps: they are the imprint we leave, the places our affections have been entrenched; the work we have done; the money we have burrowed away; the furrows and the paths that lead back to spaces we have gone, and marked, and loved.”

— Lauren Oliver

324. “The idea – the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second – is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.”

— Lauren Oliver

325. “It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist.”

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326. “Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.”

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327. “At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.”

— Lauren Oliver

328. “They told us that love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.”

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329. “You see, we didn’t know.”

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330. “It’s like there’s a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.”

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331. “Here’s the last thing that occurs to me as Sarah recedes in the rearview mirror, slamming out of the car, jogging across the parking lot: If you’re one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.”

— Lauren Oliver

332. “Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs.”

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333. “When a heart breaks, a firefly is born.”

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334. “They would face it together, as they were then: turned human by joy, by a belonging that felt just like freedom.”

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335. “Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

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336. “Popularity’s a weird thing. You can’t really define it, and it’s not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.”

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337. “He was still in love with you, anyway.”

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338. “Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.”

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339. “That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy.”

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340. “Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die.”

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341. “I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him.”

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342. “Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.”

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343. “That was the problem with the outside world, the human world. The whole thing was made up puzzles, of a language she didn’t quite speak.”

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344. “That’s the thing: We didn’t really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.”

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345. “Love obeys no laws other than its own. That’s what always made it frightening.”

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346. “Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.”

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347. “But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”

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348. “It’s for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn’t go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can’t shake the persistent, needling feeling that I’ve forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever.”

— Lauren Oliver

349. “Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.”

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350. “In approved places, every story serves a purpose. But forbidden books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them – the best ones – are doors.”

— Lauren Oliver