Past Quotes by Lauren Oliver

“Names don't mean a thing anymore. The past is dead.”

— Lauren Oliver

This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.

— Lauren Oliver

“But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.”

— Lauren Oliver

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

— Lauren Oliver

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

— Lauren Oliver

Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea…

— Lauren Oliver

“They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past. But we are still here. And there are more…

— Lauren Oliver

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and…

— Lauren Oliver

Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we…

— Lauren Oliver

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers…

— Lauren Oliver

It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall…

— Lauren Oliver

“The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone. If you hear the past speaking…

— Lauren Oliver

it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his…

— Lauren Oliver

For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For…

— Lauren Oliver

“I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind & the gibberish of trees…

— Lauren Oliver

In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull.…

— Lauren Oliver

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps,…

— Lauren Oliver

Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days…

— Lauren Oliver

“I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees…

— Lauren Oliver

“You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out…

— Lauren Oliver

“I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you. You…

— Lauren Oliver

...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the…

— Lauren Oliver