110+ Lauren Oliver Quotes On Education, Friendship And Religion

Lauren Oliver is an American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her Delirium trilogy, which consists of the novels Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem. She has also written several other novels, including Before I Fall and Liesl & Po. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lauren Oliver on education, friendship, love.

Top 10 Lauren Oliver Quotes

1. 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?
2. Live free or die.
3. 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.
4. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
5. Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.
6. i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.
7. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it
8. I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
9. I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
10. Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

Lauren Oliver Short Quotes

• A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
• I'd rather die my way than live yours.
• Hope keeps you alive.
• Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.
• The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.
• An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.
• Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish
• The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.
• The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
• So many things become beautiful when you really look.

Lauren Oliver Quotes About Love

As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter. — Lauren Oliver

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you. — Lauren Oliver

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him. — Lauren Oliver

I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again. — Lauren Oliver

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side. — Lauren Oliver

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie. — Lauren Oliver

Love: It will kill you and save you, both — Lauren Oliver

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. — Lauren Oliver

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. — Lauren Oliver

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love. — Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver Quotes About Imaginative

people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine. — Lauren Oliver

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

Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time. — Lauren Oliver

If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly. — Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver Famous Quotes And Sayings

I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients — Lauren Oliver

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

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

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

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

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. — Lauren Oliver

And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating. — Lauren Oliver

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

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

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

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped. — Lauren Oliver

My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once. — Lauren Oliver

It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking. — Lauren Oliver

It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care. — Lauren Oliver

It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it. — Lauren Oliver

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes". — Lauren Oliver

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

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. — Lauren Oliver

The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not. — Lauren Oliver

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart. — Lauren Oliver

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. — Lauren Oliver

Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own. — Lauren Oliver

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good. — Lauren Oliver

Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep. — Lauren Oliver

If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can’t say it; it is too close to passion, and passion is too close to love, and love is amor deliria nervosa, the deadliest of all deadly things: It is the reason for the games of pretend, for the secret selves, for the spasms in the throat. — Lauren Oliver

The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win. — Lauren Oliver

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

The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t. — Lauren Oliver

That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories. — Lauren Oliver

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed. — Lauren Oliver

Maybe next time, but probably not. — Lauren Oliver

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all? — Lauren Oliver

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know. — Lauren Oliver

Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds. — Lauren Oliver

It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care. — Lauren Oliver

So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format. — Lauren Oliver

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping." — Lauren Oliver

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. — Lauren Oliver

...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn't like it, didn't like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun. — Lauren Oliver

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

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me — Lauren Oliver

The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird. — Lauren Oliver

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

This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing. — Lauren Oliver

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless. — Lauren Oliver

Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is. — Lauren Oliver

Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both. — Lauren Oliver

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong. — Lauren Oliver

And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry. — Lauren Oliver

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch. — Lauren Oliver

"And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that." — Lauren Oliver

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

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music — Lauren Oliver

For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. — Lauren Oliver

We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going. — Lauren Oliver

Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel. — Lauren Oliver

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. — Lauren Oliver

He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world. — Lauren Oliver

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame. — Lauren Oliver

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

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. — Lauren Oliver

Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content. — Lauren Oliver

All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls. — Lauren Oliver

Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy). — Lauren Oliver

That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view. — Lauren Oliver

I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos. — Lauren Oliver

My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach. — Lauren Oliver

i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up. — Lauren Oliver

Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what — Lauren Oliver

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

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it. — Lauren Oliver

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point. — Lauren Oliver

Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose. We are even free to choose the wrong thing. — Lauren Oliver

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast. — Lauren Oliver

We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight. — Lauren Oliver

There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem. — Lauren Oliver

I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream. — Lauren Oliver

The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all. — Lauren Oliver

Life Lessons by Lauren Oliver

1. Lauren Oliver teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be. She emphasizes the importance of resilience and perseverance in order to achieve success.
2. She also encourages us to take risks and be open to trying new things, as this can open up a world of possibilities.
3. Finally, she shows us that it is possible to make a difference in the world, no matter how small, and that we should strive to make a positive impact in whatever way we can.