Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 18

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• This is one of my favorite things about the Underground: the crashing of the cymbals, the screeching guitar riffs, music that moves into the blood and makes you feel hot and wild and alive.

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  Moving, Guitar, Blood

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• As Steve draws me closer to the band, all I can see is a frenzied mass of seething, writhing people, like a many-headed sea snake, grinding, waving their arms, stamping their feet, jumping. No rules, just energy - so much energy, you could harness it; I bet you could power Portland for a decade. It is more than a wave. It's a tide, an ocean of bodies.

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  Ocean, Jumping, Sea

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.

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  Tunnels, Needs, I Need Him

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.552, Hachette UK

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• And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

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  Might, Pavement, Sun

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.

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  Heartbroken, Children, Order

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• willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.

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  People, Causes, Should

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

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  School, Holiday, Knowing

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.

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  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

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  World, Nonsense, Ruined

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.

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  Want, Knows

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• And I have Julian. I found him, and he followed me. I reach out in the half dark, wordlessly, and find his hands. We interlace our fingers, and though he doesn't say anything either, I can feel the warmth and energy passing between us, a soundless dialogue. Thank you, he is saying, and I am saying, I am so happy, I am so happy, I needed you to be safe.

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  Dark, Hands, Say Anything

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• Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

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  Book, Alex, Firsts

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• It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.

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  Thinking, Brain, Twists

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• Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.

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  Want Something, Might, Wells

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.421, Hachette UK

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• I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, and gave me the softest place to sleep, and nursed me back to health, and haven't asked for anything in return. The animals are on the other side of the fence: monsters wearing uniforms. They speak softly, and tell lies, and smile as they're slitting your throat.

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  Rip, Lying, Sleep

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

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  Moon, People, Waiting

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• The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

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  No Friends

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.342, Hachette UK

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• I guess there are some things you never get used to.

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  Used

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.403, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

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  Looks, Different, Moments

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