Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 10

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• At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

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  Giving Up, Brain, Certain

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.54, HarperCollins

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• You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist.

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  Girl, Wall, Sky

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• You have to learn that people are always listening.

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  People, Listening

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

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  Love Is, World, Care

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Waste today, want tomorrow.

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  Want, Today, Waste

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.362, Hachette UK

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• I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.

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  Inappropriate

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• For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Summer, Years

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• All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

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  Lying, Leaving, Growing

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh.

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  Smart, Stupid, Animal

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

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  Fall, Happy Life, Order

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• There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

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  Darkness, Want, Holding On

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• They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

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  Country, Dust, Flames

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• Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

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  Valentines Day, Ice Cream, Hot

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark; but you are supposed to go through them.

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  Dark, Tunnels, Long

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.

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  Home, People, Looks

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• What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

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  Smell, Fire, Heaven

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• Sarah: "Not bad. You look almost human." Lena: "Thanks." Sarah: "I said almost." Lena: "Well, then, almost thanks.

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  Looks, Thanks, Said

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• The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

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  Moving, Grind, Hours

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• When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all I see is color and blur—and in that split second, right as the pain crests, and becomes too much, and there’s a whiteness going through me, I see something to my left, a flicker of color […]—and I know then, too, that if I only turn my head he’ll be there, laughing, watching me, and holding out his arms. I don’t ever turn my head to look, of course. But one day I will. One day I will, and he’ll be back, and everything will be okay. And until then: I run.

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  Running, Pain, Color

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• Live free or die. Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips. Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.

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  Letters, Bumps, Stories

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• It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

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  Distance, Old Life, Divides

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

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  Wall, Secret, Alex

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.

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  Different, Alive, Care

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

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  Life, Promise, Gold

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

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  Trying, Arms, Way

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