Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 16

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Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

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Borders, Adjusting, Boundaries

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people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

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People, Sometimes, Reason

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anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.

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Sky, Ifs, Anything Is Possible

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It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

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Past, Layers, Dirt

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it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

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Grief, Past, Resistance

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

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Lying, Choices, Fiction

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I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

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Dust, Feelings, Way

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Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

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Selfishness, Disease, Amor

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Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

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Lying, Quiet, Graves

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.629, Hachette UK

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...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

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Pain, Past, Glasses

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

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But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.

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Fire, Matter, Tiny

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But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.

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Knowing

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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.

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Sky, Thank You God, Lasts

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

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People, Trying, Helping

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Sorry, Kissing, Needs

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The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.

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Memories, Snapshots, Seems

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.43, Hachette UK

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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.

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Voice, Sound, News

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This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.

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Glasses

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.77, Hachette UK

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We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

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Kissing, Hands, Trying

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Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

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Fire, Flames, Two

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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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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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World, Way, Blind

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.410, Hachette UK

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I loved to be alone in the woods, especially in the late fall when everything is crisp and golden, the leaves the color of fire, and it smells like things turning into earth. I loved the silence - the only sound the steady drum of the hooves and the horse's breathing.

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Horse, Fall, Color

Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.40, HarperCollins

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