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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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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.

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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.

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Passion, Sadness, Thinking

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

Lauren Oliver

Moving, Guitar, Blood

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

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Views, Different, Looks

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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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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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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).

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Thinking, Skills, Slavery

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

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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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..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.

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Beautiful, Unique, Everyday Routine

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

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For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

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Sorry, Fighting, Years

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

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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.

Lauren Oliver

Used

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

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With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

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Expectations, Language, Cures

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

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Perfection, Promise, Reassurance

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.9, Harper Collins

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I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.

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Love You, Remember, Someday

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That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

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Fall, Choices, Easy

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.84, Hachette UK

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But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

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Destiny, Forever, World

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.84, Hachette UK

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Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

Lauren Oliver

Liars, Lying, Telling The Truth

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