Lauren Oliver quotes

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue. (Lauren Oliver)
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry. View quote
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Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future. View quote
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My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion. View quote
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That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes. View quote
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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'd rather die my way than live yours. View quote
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A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd said. Indifference is. View quote
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You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes". View quote
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Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own. View quote
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I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of. View quote
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There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am. View quote
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I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears. View quote
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'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure. View quote
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I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations. View quote
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I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made. (Lauren Oliver)
I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life. View quote
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One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do. View quote
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I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too. View quote
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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. View quote
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Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver - Image
Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
Occupation: American Author
Born: November 8, 1982
Quotes count: 136

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