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But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.

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Life, Winning, Track

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Rooms”, p.74, Hachette UK

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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

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Book, Leaving, Finishing

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The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.

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Winning, Simple, Panic

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Panic”, p.13, Harper Collins

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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.

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Eye, Lazy, Popularity

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

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I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.

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Believe, Order, Path

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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.

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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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I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

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Love, Fall, Sleep

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.659, 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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People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.

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Doors, People, House

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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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Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.

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Air, Water, Nurture

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.64, Hachette UK

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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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I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand. "I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again." I don't trust myself to speak. Instead I nod, hoping that he understands me. He squeezes my hand. "Go," he says.

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Eye, Hands, Alex

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They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

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Hurt, Wall, Pain

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Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥

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Fall, Fate, Thinking

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I’ve always hated being looked at.

Lauren Oliver

Hated

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.14, Harper Collins

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I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

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Sorry, Leaving, Wonder

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.60, Harper Collins

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But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

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Doe, World, Turns

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.187, Hachette UK

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That’s what you do for family. Anything.

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Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.108, Hachette UK

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It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

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Long, Has Beens, Versions

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His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.

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Names, Secret

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.91, Hachette UK

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