Lauren Oliver Quotes

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . .

I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

While there's life, there's fear.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

I fear the future.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.