Top 100 Lauren Oliver Love Quotes
#1. I love you. Mom loves you. Dad loves you.
That doesn't count. You guys have to love me. It's practically illegal not to. You probably just love me so you won't go to jail.
Lauren Oliver
#2. 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
#3. If you're smart, you care. And if you care, you love.
Lauren Oliver
#5. So much between us went unsaid; that is the danger, and beauty, of life without the cure. There is always wilderness and tangle, and the path is never clear.
Lauren Oliver
#7. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow. A beautiful word, when you really think about it.
Lauren Oliver
#8. I've never really had a party before." "Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. "I thought if I had a party, you would come.
Lauren Oliver
#9. Parents teach us our very first lesson about love: that you sure as hell don't get to choose it.
Lauren Oliver
#10. Still, the idea continued to drum through her, like the constant patter of the rain: that no one would ever love her.
Lauren Oliver
#11. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him. Please.
Lauren Oliver
#12. Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.
Lauren Oliver
#13. I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
Lauren Oliver
#14. Her fierce and fearful friend
who loved country music and cherry Pop Tarts and singing in public and the color pink, who was terrified of germs and dogs and ladders.
Lauren Oliver
#15. Home is where I built my life.
- Henry Morbower
Lauren Oliver
#16. 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
#17. I am tired of fighting, of hitting and being hit. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. It's the upside-down nature of life.
Lauren Oliver
#18. All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie.
She was learning to love.
Lauren Oliver
#19. And then she left, and it broke my heart so completely I could hardly breathe.
Lauren Oliver
#20. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.
For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.
Lauren Oliver
#21. I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you."
"You don't know me," I say quickly.
"I want to, though.
Lauren Oliver
#22. 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
#23. In one,Einstein is pictured over the words GRAVITY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR FALLING IN LOVE.
Lauren Oliver
#24. Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?
... That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it over with. I think. Actually, I'm not sure why it seemed so important.
Lauren Oliver
#25. You broke my heart.
I fell for you and you broke my heart.
Period, done, end of story.
Lauren Oliver
#26. That's okay," she says at last, returning her gaze to the fire. "He was still in love with you, anyway.
Lauren Oliver
#27. 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
#28. Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places.
Lauren Oliver
#29. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. All along, he's loved her.
Lauren Oliver
#30. Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
Lauren Oliver
#32. ...even though he's supposed to be obsessively in love with me. Not that I want him to be in love with me, obviously. It's just a constant that's always been comforting, in a weird way.
Lauren Oliver
#33. I let her stay a few feet ahead of me and try to memorize her exactly as she is: running, laughing, tan and happy and beautiful and mine; blond hair flashing in the last rays of sun like a torch, like a beacon of good things to come, and better days ahead for us both.
Lauren Oliver
#34. My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It's a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can't bear to think that he might love somebody else.
Lauren Oliver
#35. I could feel the heat from all the colored lights pressing down on me like a hand, and the music seemed to echo somewhere behind my ribs, making my heart flutter and skip in time.
Lauren Oliver
#37. If I could make it better I would, he says. In some ways it's a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the way he said it, so honest and simple like it's the truest thing there is, makes the tears prick in my eyes. (Before I Fall)
Lauren Oliver
#38. Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air.
Lauren Oliver
#39. 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
#40. - And you completely blow me away and rip my world up and everything else, and then you go back to ignoring me."
"I blew you away?" I squeak out before I can stop myself.
He stares at me steadily. "You blew everything away.
Lauren Oliver
#42. This woman who wants to lead a revolution for love and doesn't even acknowledge her own daughter
Lauren Oliver
#43. I love to sleep. I'm an excellent, excellent sleeper.
Lauren Oliver
#44. I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.
Lauren Oliver
#45. Everyone is asleep. They've been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.
I'm tired of sleeping.
Lauren Oliver
#46. He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.
Lauren Oliver
#47. Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.
Lauren Oliver
#48. Over the past week, I've accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.
Lauren Oliver
#49. It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.
Lauren Oliver
#50. Love obeys no laws other than its own. That's what always made it frightening.
Lauren Oliver
#52. But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.
Lauren Oliver
#53. That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.
Lauren Oliver
#54. 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
#55. And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
Lauren Oliver
#56. The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface.
Love.
Lauren Oliver
#58. No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world can go to hell.
Lauren Oliver
#59. In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.
Lauren Oliver
#60. I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
Lauren Oliver
#62. 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
#63. That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
Lauren Oliver
#64. Who the hell calls at two in the morning?"
"Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says.
"Very funny,
Lauren Oliver
#65. I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand.
"I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again."
I don't trust myself to speak. Instead I nod, hoping that he understands me. He squeezes my hand.
"Go," he says.
Lauren Oliver
#66. Love. I love you. I'll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.
Lauren Oliver
#67. You know what your problem is? You want everything to be shitty. You have a sister who loves you. Friends who love you. I love you, Heather.
Lauren Oliver
#68. 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
#70. [S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.
Lauren Oliver
#71. She fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her.
Lauren Oliver
#72. When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.
Lauren Oliver
#73. 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
#74. I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.
Lauren Oliver
#75. 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
#76. I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
Lauren Oliver
#77. 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
#79. I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.
Lauren Oliver
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.
I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.
Lauren Oliver
#83. Nothing says 'I love you' like a brick through the window.
Lauren Oliver
#84. It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable
Lauren Oliver
#85. They told us that love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.
Lauren Oliver
#86. Into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear
Lauren Oliver
#87. That's what made it so
frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys
no laws other than its own.
Lauren Oliver
#88. I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.
Lauren Oliver
#89. And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.
Lauren Oliver
#90. She felt as though, just for a second, she had understood something vastly important, had had a glimpse of it: love, pure and simple and undemanding.
Lauren Oliver
#91. For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who you are.
For the people who will infect me in the future
- I can't wait to see who you'll be.
And in both cases:
Thank you.
Lauren Oliver
#92. That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
Lauren Oliver
#93. Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.
It kills you.
Alex.
When you have it.
Alex.
And when you don't.
Alex.
Lauren Oliver
#94. As my friend Oliver Platt used to say to me about hopes and dreams I'd share with him: 'It's coming, just not on your time frame.
Lauren Graham
#95. Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.
Lauren Oliver
#96. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
Lauren Oliver
#97. Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you.
-Lauren Oliver, Delerium
Lauren Oliver
#98. We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.
Lauren Oliver
#99. The idea - the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second - is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.
Lauren Oliver
#100. I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.
Lauren Oliver
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