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Lauren Oliver Quotes

Total quotes: 45
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Hope, alive, Death
“The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Tagged: Freedom, Independent, Alone
“I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Love, Knowledge, Intimacy
“Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, deadly, Killer
“Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Music, Love, Songs
“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: beauty, pay attention, Beautiful
“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Helping, humanity, screwed over
“Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Possession, poison, dangerous
“Life’s the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.”
— Lauren Oliver, Rooms: A Novel
Tagged: Life, misakes, Regrets
“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Happiness, Unhappy, Sadness, comparison
“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Hearts, fragile, Careful, Heartbroken
“And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Words, Language, Fear, Joy
“You must hurt or be hurt.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Hurting, Pain, Suffering
“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: People, Evil, mean
“Nobody ever said life was fair.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: fair, Equality, Fairness
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Grief, sinking, Suffering
“The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. Take it from me: 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—the only thing—is run.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Tagged: Past, Run, Memories
“I'd rather die my way than live yours”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Lauren Oliver, Strong Women, Independent
“I've started dreaming of Portland again.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
Tagged: first lines of books
“Love: It will kill you and save you, both.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
Tagged: Love, Death, saving
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