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Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .

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Fall, Eye, Thinking

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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.

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Past, Careful, Ifs

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.128, Hachette UK

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The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

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Air, Sea, Salt

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.18, Harper Collins

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The Wilds aren't safe anymore.

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Safe

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.638, Hachette UK

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And we did, and it wasn’t bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.” I’m gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown; I’m reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar.

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Stars, Stupid, Dark

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.15, Harper Collins

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Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.

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Love You, Love Of My Life, Always Love You

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It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

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Hurt, Bullshit, May

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.141, Hachette UK

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My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.

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Love Is, Thinking, People

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.96, Hachette UK

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It's the way he says my name: like music.

Lauren Oliver

Names, Way

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.69, Harper Collins

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Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

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Hurt, Dying, Coming Back

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But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.

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Believe, Magic, Knows

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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.

Lauren Oliver

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.

Lauren Oliver

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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Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. After that, I couldn't think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. The way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. Her eyes, deep as a promise. Her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. I nearly went crazy.

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Crazy, Eye, Sunshine

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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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Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

Lauren Oliver

Let Me

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.263, Hachette UK

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You see, we didn't know.

Lauren Oliver

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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It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

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Life, People, Warning

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Rooms”, p.69, Hachette UK

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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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