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I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.

Lauren Oliver

Baby, Hands, Bird

Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.203, Hachette UK

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Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

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Fun, Kids, Talking

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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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He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

Eye, Cities, Light

"Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

Lauren Oliver

Coffee, Lines, Way

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.20, Harper Collins

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I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.

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Sorry, Gone, Woods

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.178, Hachette UK

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Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

Lauren Oliver

Wall, Past, Ideas

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.235, Hachette UK

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But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.

Lauren Oliver

Jealous, Dust, Forgive Me

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I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

Lauren Oliver

Mom, Cutting, Our World

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Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.

Lauren Oliver

Years, Lost, Meaningless

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That's the thing about faith. It works.

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Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.130, Hachette UK

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Live free or die.

Lauren Oliver

Live Free, Dies

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The old Lena is dead.

Lauren Oliver

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

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That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.

Lauren Oliver

Want

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.263, Hachette UK

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Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut. Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck. 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. -From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales

Lauren Oliver

Art, Children, Home

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

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For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons. You were right; I was wrong. Get it out.

Lauren Oliver

Thinking, Would Be, Sides

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

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Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.

Lauren Oliver

Love Is, Poison, Kind

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We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.

Lauren Oliver

Dark, Gun, Sky

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.164, Hachette UK

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Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

Lauren Oliver

Thinking, Numbers, Decision

Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.10, Harper Collins

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If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.

Lauren Oliver

Disease, Imagine, My Family

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.730, Hachette UK

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They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.

Lauren Oliver

Should Have, Should, Said

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.644, Hachette UK

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Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Lauren Oliver

Portland, Mayors

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.78, Hachette UK

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And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.

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Teacher, Lying, Miracle

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I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

Lauren Oliver

Would Be, Scared, Knows

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.642, Hachette UK

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He was still in love with you, anyway.

Lauren Oliver

Love You, Still Love You, Still In Love

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