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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.

Lauren Oliver

Horse, Fall, Color

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

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No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

Lauren Oliver

Girl, Confused, Boys

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Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you." And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. 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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Couple, Kissing, Thinking

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I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I...wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.

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Rocks, People, Secret

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It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.

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Shoes, House, Miracle

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Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.

Lauren Oliver

Past, Two, People

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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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.

Lauren Oliver

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

Lauren Oliver

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

Lauren Oliver

Children, Philosophy, Eye

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

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I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

Lauren Oliver

Want, Normal, Make You Happy

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

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Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

Lauren Oliver

Suicide, Dream, Doors

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.16, Harper Collins

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Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.

Lauren Oliver

Thinking, Disappoint

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.55, Harper Collins

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Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

Lauren Oliver

Boys, Talking, Secret

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.67, Harper Collins

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We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

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People, Forget, Disappear

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.139, Hachette UK

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What I meant was, you looked happier in the pictures.

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Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

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Moving, People, Looks

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.50, Harper Collins

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Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.

Lauren Oliver

Writing, Wind, Together

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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.

Lauren Oliver

Letting Go, Grief, Echoes

"Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

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There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

Lauren Oliver

Passion, Sadness, Thinking

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.365, Hachette UK

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Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

Lauren Oliver

Thinking, Skills, Slavery

Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.26, Harper Collins

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This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.

Lauren Oliver

Tree, Encounters, Answers

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In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.

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Past, Hands, Trying

Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.10, Harper Collins

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That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.

Lauren Oliver

Views, Different, Looks

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My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.

Lauren Oliver

Distance, Kissing, Passionate

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.8, Hachette UK

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