Lauren Oliver Quotes

Two dogs never agree about one bone.

Any time you have change, it costs somebody. Somebody is a loser.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

The cost of war is constantly spread before me written in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones.

Everyone's out there trying to take what's mine, and they're going to have to fight me for it.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

You might win some, but you just lost one.

Blood is the price of victory

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Whatever's lost, it first was won.

I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.

Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.

Life is a zero sum game.

When the old men fight, the young people die.

Peace is the real and right memorial for those who have died in war.

To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

For every victory there is a price.