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Lauren Oliver Quotes

Total quotes: 74
“I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Tagged: photographs, Memories, Past, Looking Back
“This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Tagged: Personalities, People, differences, Life
“Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love And Loss
“And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Tagged: Love, Intimacy
“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Tagged: Love, Sad reality, Pain, Cruelty, Irony
“It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Tagged: Words, Pain, Suffering
“We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Mantra, Words, Encouragement, motivation
“That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Best Friends, Friendship, Protection
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Best Days, Future, Building A Future, Ruins
“But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Tagged: Summer, Summer's Beauty, Summer Vibes
“It’s amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Tagged: Words, hurt
“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Tagged: Love, Lauren Conrad
“Sometimes I feel as though there are two me’s, one coating directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when he’s supposed to nod and says what he’s supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams… Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I’m two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Personalities, Attitude, Self-awareness, Ideology
“Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep, because of what I'm leaving behind.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Sleeping, Resting, leaving behind
“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“Funny how things can stay the same forever and then change so quickly.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Tagged: Change, Changing, quickly
“All of life is about ending up somewhere you didn’t expect, and learning to just be happy with it.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Tagged: Life Happens, Happiness, Contentment and Acceptance
“Here's what nobody tells you: 90 percent of the time, when you fall in love, somebody gets burned.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Tagged: Love, Fall in love, Loving Someone, Love & Relationships
“Weird how you can confuse two feelings so different. Cold and hot. Pain and love.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girl
Tagged: Human Emotions, love quotes, Complicated Feelings
“You can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Future, Change, Success
“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Patience, Waiting, Past, Memories
“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: young, Old, Growing Up, kids, adults
“This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Hatred, Destruction, Healing
“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, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: killers, Life, Past, excuses
“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Friends, Friendships, Good Friends, Best Friends
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people--to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Confusion, Misunderstanding, cause and effect
“It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: People, Knowledge, Secrets
“Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never lose it or give it away.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Tagged: Life, Meaning Of Life, Fighting, Holding On
“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Power, Love, Boyfriend, Dating
“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Trust, Disappointment, Friendship
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Anger, Rage, careless, Feelings
“Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Healing, Time, Patience
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Tagged: Love, Loss, Sacrifice
“But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Tagged: Future, Rebuilding Your Life, Life, Change
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Closeness, Intimacy, Healing
“The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Tagged: Friends, Alone, Pity
“You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Moving Forward, surviving, Survival
“When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said, Tomorrow. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll do something about it. And they said that until they died.”
— Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
Tagged: Afraid, Fear, tomorrow, Death
“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: goodbye, Moving On, Letting Go
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