Lauren Oliver Quotes About Grief

Quotes about: Grief

• He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Disbelief, Mines

• Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

  Lauren Oliver

  Letting Go, Grief, Echoes

  "Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

• it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Past, Resistance

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

• For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Facts, Things Change

• Grief is like sinking, like being buried.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Sinking, Buried

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.21, Harper Collins

• I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Chance, Cry

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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