Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 16

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

  Lauren Oliver

  Book, Leaving, Finishing

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

  Lauren Oliver

  Believe, Magic, Knows

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• This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Trying, Helping

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.202, Hachette UK

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• Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sky, Thank You God, Lasts

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• It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.

  Lauren Oliver

  Games, Ends, Wells

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.25, HarperCollins

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• Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.

  Lauren Oliver

  Flying, Fine, Mice

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• Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sorry, Kissing, Needs

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• He’s speaking in the tone of voice that everyone uses when they’re about to break you apart. Gentle—kind, even—like they can make the news sound better just by speaking in a lullaby voice.

  Lauren Oliver

  Voice, Sound, News

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• I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Forever, Skins

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Years, Delirium

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• If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

  Lauren Oliver

  Light, Laughing, Feelings

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• i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Different, Curtains

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Light, Laughing, Feelings

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• "Kent?" I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. "Yeah?"
  "Promise you'll stay here with me?" I say.
  "I promise," he whispers.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fog, Voice, Forever

  "Before I Fall: The official film tie-in that will take your breath away". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2010.

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• Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sleep, August, Long

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Princess, Hero

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• My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.

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  Heart, Boys, Thinking

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.223, Hachette UK

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• And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Life, Dream, Broken

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

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  World, Danger, Brushes

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• I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.

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  Fire, Glowing, Iron

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.57, Harper Collins

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• it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing and cell phones and boys and clothes. it's kind of sad, if you think about it. like there's no continuity in people at all. like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult," and after that you're a totally different person. maybe even a less happy person. maybe even a worse one.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kids, Thinking, Boys

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• ..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Unique, Everyday Routine

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.218, Hachette UK

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• There are more of us than you think.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking

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• The sun has just risen, weak and watery-looking, like it had just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up.

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  Lazy, Sun, Horizon

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• When we get out of highschool we'll look back and know we did everything right, that we kissed the cutest boys and went to the best parties, got in just enough trouble, listened to our music too loud, smoked too many cigarettes, and drank too much and laughed too much and listened too little, or not al all.

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  Party, Boys, Littles

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.18, Harper Collins

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