Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 17

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Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

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Stupid, Dumb, World

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...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

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Coffee, Home, Missing

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He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

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Growing Up, Growing, Stuck

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I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.

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Sadness, Who I Am, People

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The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.

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Wall, Writing, Four

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Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies.

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Doors, Body, Crowds

Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.287, Hachette UK

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I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

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Dream, Stars, Thinking

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That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

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Law, Made, Frightening

Lauren Oliver (2012). “Annabel: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

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Dancing, Alex Sheathes

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.166, Hachette UK

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The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.

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Thinking, World, Way

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Funny how certain things stay with you.

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Certain

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An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.

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Blood, Feelings, Mosquitoes

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.28, Harper Collins

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If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.

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Want Something, Want, Ifs

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Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.

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Summer, Morning, Flower

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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

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Warrior, People, World

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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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It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

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Taken, Care, Chance

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It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

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Fall, Mean, Darkness

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For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

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Choices, Done, Firsts

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That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.

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Promise, Tears, Skins

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.129, Hachette UK

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I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

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Giving Up, Self, People

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Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom.

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Finding Happiness, Way, Unhappiness

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.182, Hachette UK

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Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn your hair to gray. Mary keep your oars a-steady Sail away on the rising flood Keep your candle at the ready Red tides can't be told from blood. - "Miss Mary" (a common child's clapping game, dating from the time of the blitz), from Pattycake and Beyond: A History of Play

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Children, Rain, Games

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Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.

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Selfish, Violet, Emotion

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What is beauty? Beauty is no more than a trick; a delusion; the influence of excited particles and electrons colliding in your eyes, jostling in your brain like a bunch of overeager school children, about to be released on break. Will you let yourself be deluded? Will you let yourself be decieved? -"On Beauty and Falsehood," The New Philosophy, by Ellen Dorpshire

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Children, Philosophy, Eye

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.267, Hachette UK

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