Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Fear. Blame. Don’t forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

354. “And yet there were times when I felt my life full of such richness, such fullness, I couldn’t express it, couldn’t speak or breathe a word because I feared the disruption – even a single breath could ruin it, like wind over a pond. I didn’t want even a ripple.”

— Lauren Oliver

355. “You can’t tell me what to feel.”

— Lauren Oliver

356. “Nothing exists but him.”

— Lauren Oliver

357. “I don’t know which is worse: that I’m home and so much is different, or that I’m home and so much feels the same.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

359. “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.”

— Lauren Oliver

360. “I used to think that’s what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

362. “If secrets were stuffing, the woman would be done up like a Thanksgiving turkey.”

— Lauren Oliver

363. “Above our heads, the stars flare and glitter and flash: thousands and thousands of them, so many thousands they look like snowflakes whirling away into the inky dark.”

— Lauren Oliver

364. “You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

366. “Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

368. “She’s like a person looking through the wrong end of a telescope, complaining that everything looks small.”

— Lauren Oliver

369. “If you don’t watch out, they’ll grab you. They’ll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

371. “I wonder if this is how people get close: They heal each other’s wounds.”

— Lauren Oliver

372. “Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs.”

— Lauren Oliver

373. “It’s funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.”

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374. “I remember something Mrs. Harbor once said on one of her crazy tangents in English: that Plato believed that the whole world – everything we can see – was just like shadows on a cave wall. We can’t actually see the real thing, the thing that’s casting the shadow in the first place.”

— Lauren Oliver

375. “Kiss Kent. Really kiss him, slow and long, somewhere outside – maybe while it’s snowing. Maybe standing in the woods. He’ll lean forward and he’ll have little snowflakes on his eyelashes again and he’ll brush the hair away from my face and put a warm hand behind my neck, so warm it’s almost burning –.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

377. “Decaf. The single worst word in the English language.”

— Lauren Oliver

378. “Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.”

— Lauren Oliver

379. “But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.”

— Lauren Oliver

380. “In books, secret worlds are accessible by doors or keys or other physical objects. But Lovelorn was not such a world, and appeared at whim and only when it felt like it, with a subtle change like the slow shifting of afternoon to evening.”

— Lauren Oliver

381. “People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons. “What’s.”

— Lauren Oliver

382. “She knew that there were electrical currents in the body and was what she was reminded of now. of currents flowing between them, of thousands of lights.”

— Lauren Oliver

383. “I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It’s hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.”

— Lauren Oliver

384. “The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.”

— Lauren Oliver

385. “Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.”

— Lauren Oliver

386. “And when I wake up it’s wonderful, like I’ve been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.”

— Lauren Oliver

387. “They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.”

— Lauren Oliver

388. “I was the one who was really buried that day.”

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389. “He’s furious. And something else – another expression is working beneath the anger, a look of hurt so deep it makes me want to curl up and die. It’s crazy how someone else’s pain can do that, just take the legs out from under you” -Mia.”

— Lauren Oliver

390. “Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.”

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391. “As if they each belonged two separate realities that only coexisted momentarily.”

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392. “It’s a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It’s a miracle I’m even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.”

— Lauren Oliver

393. “School is only hard when you care about doing well. And when you’re the stupid one in the family, no one expects you to do well.”

— Lauren Oliver

394. “If you want something, if you take it for your own, you’ll always be taking it from someone else.”

— Lauren Oliver

395. “Parents teach us our very first lesson about love: that you sure as hell don’t get to choose it.”

— Lauren Oliver

396. “What was the point of trying at all, if in the end you were no better, no longer, no more real than a bathroom sink and a rust stain?”

— Lauren Oliver

397. “As we’re standing there I realize we’re almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.”

— Lauren Oliver

398. “Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.”

— Lauren Oliver

399. “In the lower half of one wall, she has traced the word so many times in such enormous script – LOVE, each letter the size of a child – and gouged so deeply into the stone that the O has formed a tunnel, and she has gotten out.”

— Lauren Oliver

400. “But all you see is the crap. So you don’t have to believe in anything. So you’ll have an excuse to fail.”

— Lauren Oliver