Lauren Oliver Quotes

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

The results would have stayed on the watch face until the batteries died. But trying to make time stand still this way would have been a mistake. It is just as important to erase times eventually as to save them at first.

The past is over.

Things die for a reason, and in Bungle's case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I'd go crawling back to.

I won't cling to the past.

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

At some point, we all have to let go.

No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.

The past is a closed door.

But whatever you've been today is already over.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

When it seems impossible that a deep connection with another person could just go away instead of changing form. It seems impossible that you will one day look up and say the words "I used to date someone who lived in that building," referring to a three-year relationship. As simple as if it was a pizza place that is now a dry cleaner's. It happens. Keep walking.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

It's exciting to kind of move forward and take hold of the opportunity that "Twilight's" afforded us, but it's also kind of sad.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

I never look at things again once they're done.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

The past has nothing more to teach us. Then why not let it be …. We must look ahead …. Unless we learn to forget, we will be turned into a pillar of salt.