Lauren Oliver Quotes

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

My favorite thing is just walking in the woods. I can do it for days on end without tiring of it.

I actually really like being in the woods.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

There is a harmony In autumn, and a luster in its sky...

O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Silence is best.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.