1,161 Quotes by Lauren Oliver

Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.

I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for....

You must hurt, or be hurt.

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

I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.

I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.