Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 11

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• That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.

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  Believe, Rocks, Doe

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• The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

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  Sparrows

  "Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2011.

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• I know some of you are Thinking maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing Fringers, let me ask you Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse Then what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse Than what you do?

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  Thinking, Doe, Let Me

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• It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Wish, Matter

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.

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  Tomorrow

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• That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

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  Strong, Hurt, Stronger

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

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  Real, Hands, Rhythm

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• Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

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  Art, Home, Bed

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy

  Lauren Oliver

  Boys, Shadow, Alex

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• I was glad when the invalids were executed

  Lauren Oliver

  Glad

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• I’m not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Would Be, Cures

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• This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Dust, Cities

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.679, Hachette UK

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• For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.

  Lauren Oliver

  Alex, Splits

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.681, Hachette UK

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• I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Thinking, Grace

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• Until, one day, she wasn’t.

  Lauren Oliver

  One Day

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• Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.

  Lauren Oliver

  Jealous, Alex, Caught

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• For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.

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  Heart, Moments, Crosses

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.

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  New York, Believe, Eye

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• I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

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  Lasts, Chosen

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• The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.

  Lauren Oliver

  Real, Procedures, Mark

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• I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sorry, Ravens, Lows

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• We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight.

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  Eye, Fighting, Two

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• I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.

  Lauren Oliver

  Married

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• I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Remember, Letting You Go

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• I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

  Lauren Oliver

  Layers, Impossible, Buried

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.707, Hachette UK

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