Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 21

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• I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Skills, Perfect

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• It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.

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  Wall, Nice, Garden

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kissing, Feelings, New Life

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex

  Lauren Oliver

  Sleep, Alex, Tents

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sleep, Belief, You Again

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.

  Lauren Oliver

  Guests, Want, Rooms

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• Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday?” I roll my eyes. “I don’t know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback.” “I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party.” He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. “And I’m not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks.” “What’s an acid flashback?” Izzy crows. “Nothing,” my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me.

  Lauren Oliver

  Friday, Dad, Party

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• I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.

  Lauren Oliver

  Party, Talking, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.167, Hachette UK

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• Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.

  Lauren Oliver

  Forever, Spinning, Tiny

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

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  Love Is, Giving, World

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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.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Waiting, Hovering

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.348, Hachette UK

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• There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass.

  Lauren Oliver

  Kissing, Glasses, People

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• It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

  Lauren Oliver

  Care, Delirium, Kill Me

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• That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Dark, Next

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.

  Lauren Oliver

  People

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• 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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  Happiness, Fiction, Pretending

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

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  Return, Requiem

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.214, Hachette UK

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• We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

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  Fighting, Fighting For Love, Wanted

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.248, Hachette UK

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• But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

  Lauren Oliver

  Problem

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• There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Insecure, Awkward, Today

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Erratic

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Feelings, Stomach, Can Do

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• At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

  Lauren Oliver

  Different, Way, Faults

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pugs, Ugly, Far Away

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.145, Hachette UK

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