Lauren Oliver Quotes

I guess the thing about exposing your heart is that people may not even notice it. Like a flop movie. Or they'll borrow your heart and they'll forget to return it to you.

I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

People go away and they don't come back.

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

There were times when close people… Some of my closest friends have left me. People hurt me, so everything fell apart. I didn't feel like I had anyone on my side or anyone who could understand me. So that's why I completely fell apart.

I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.

My wife left me when I was 28 in real life.

There are times you break up with a loved one, a friend, or whatever. You feel alone. It's a very easy feeling to understand - the feeling of loss, heartache, and pain.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

The problem is, when I talk about heartbreak or whatever, people want to melt it down to some break-up of a relationship, but it's not about that. If you're a sensitive person, just stepping outside can be heartbreaking.

It's sad when people break up.

I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

You have turned me out; you have turned me out.

I've had my heart broken in a lot of different ways a lot of different times by different people - whether it be a family member, a girlfriend, a friend, just all types of relying on people, making yourself vulnerable to people.

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.