Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 13

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• No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, World, Hell

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.564, Hachette UK

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• You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

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  Wall, Sky, Way

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• The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not.

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  Reflection, Mirrors, House

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

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  Growing Up, Path, Adults

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.48, Harper Collins

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• Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

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  People, Closure, Controversial

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• Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Lazy, Popularity

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.13, HarperCollins

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• Maybe next time, but probably not.

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  Next, Maybe Next Time, Next Time

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• So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

  Lauren Oliver

  Knights, Shining, Doe

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• The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

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  Growing Up, Laughing, Sides

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Before I Fall

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.

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  Morning, Thinking, World

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us. Lindsay, who will bite at you if you even look in her direction the wrong way, like on of those tiny attack dogs that are always barking and snapping in the air before they're jerked backward on the chains that keep them in one place.

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  Dog, Air, People

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• That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

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  Real, Reflection, Way

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.42, HarperCollins

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• Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

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  Alive, Remember

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.59, HarperCollins

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• And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.

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  Whole

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• It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

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  People, Connecticut, Whole

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.10, HarperCollins

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• I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.

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  Light, Sky, Different

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• So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.

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  Mean, Bullets, Towels

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• A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

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  Butterfly, Wings, Broken

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• Things That Don't Matter When You've Lived the Same Day Six Times and Died on at Least Two of Them: Lunch meats and their relative coolness.

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  Two, Lunch, Meat

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• like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.

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  Wonderland, Rooms, Bigs

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• You see, we didn't know.

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  Knows

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path; I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.

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  Block, Dark, Thinking

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• Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

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  Beautiful, Book, Perception

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• That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once. They are the meaning.

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  Forever, Goes On, Infinity

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.294, Hachette UK

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