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50 Lauren Oliver Quotes That Will Show You Why Love Is The Only Thing That Matters

Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself. 
Holly Riordan
October 17, 2016
“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Happiness, Unhappy, Sadness, comparison
“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Tagged: Time, tomorrow, enjoy the moment
“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: beauty, pay attention, Beautiful
“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
“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
“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: chances, risks, falling, Flying
“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
“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
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Time, Forever, Memories
“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
“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Change, possibilities, Friends, boyfriends
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“You can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Being Loved, affection
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Aging, Happiness, Faking it, Panic
“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
“That's when you really lose people, you know. When the pain passes.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Loss, Pain, Suffering, Goodbyes
“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Trust, Disappointment, Friendship
“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“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
“The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Tagged: Friends, Alone, Pity