Top 500 Lauren Oliver Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “That’s modernity, if you ask me: endless division.”

— Lauren Oliver

352. “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

353. “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

354. “Funny how people could be around you for so many years, and be so off the mark.”

— Lauren Oliver

355. “This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.”

— Lauren Oliver

356. “The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.”

— Lauren Oliver

357. “I close my eyes. An image flashes – emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.”

— Lauren Oliver

358. “Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

360. “Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from – this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

363. “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

364. “Fear. Blame. Don’t forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium.”

— Lauren Oliver

365. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

367. “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

368. “But I am going to keep going. I am going to soar, and soar, and break away – up, up, up into the thundering noise and the wind, like a bird being sucked into the sky.”

— Lauren Oliver

369. “There was always a way up, and out, and no need to be afraid.”

— Lauren Oliver

370. “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

371. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

374. “Nothing exists but him.”

— Lauren Oliver

375. “I didn’t realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

377. “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

378. “We are all Hangmen.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

380. “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

381. “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

382. “Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.”

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

385. “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

386. “There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.”

— Lauren Oliver

387. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Lauren Oliver

393. “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

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

— Lauren Oliver

395. “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 all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.”

— Lauren Oliver

396. “For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.”

— Lauren Oliver

397. “Happiness is found when no one is looking.”

— Lauren Oliver

398. “All I can think is: I need air. The rest of my thoughts are a blur of radio static and fluorescent lights and lab coats and steel tables and surgical knives.”

— Lauren Oliver

399. “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

400. “Finishing books – and leaving the world you’ve created – is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.”

— Lauren Oliver