Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 3

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• I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Borders, Used

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Disbelief, Mines

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• People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lonely, People, Needs

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.

  Lauren Oliver

  War, Thinking, Feelings

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.

  Lauren Oliver

  Amor, Delirium

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.

  Lauren Oliver

  Different, Ends, Form

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• Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

  Lauren Oliver

  Friday, Happy Friday, Way

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.

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  Believe, Sometimes, Moments

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect.

  Lauren Oliver

  Perfect

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Heart, Race

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• There's always some relief in giving up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Giving Up, Giving, Relief

  Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.

  Lauren Oliver

  Way, Chosen, One Way

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• Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, People, Giving

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.686, Hachette UK

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• This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Guessing, Blind

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• But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

  Lauren Oliver

  Shadow, Way, Demon

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• I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness... I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Sadness, Rushing

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.221, Hachette UK

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• i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.

  Lauren Oliver

  Secret, Wish, Looks

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• Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.

  Lauren Oliver

  Movement, Earth

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• The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don’t.

  Lauren Oliver

  Delirium

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

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• Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.

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  Time, Forever, Watches

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• In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dust, Data, Numbers

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• We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as though it achieves physical existence, becomes a hand all around us, cupping us together, protecting us. This is what people are always talking about when they talk about god: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get.

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  Prayer, Hands, Talking

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.245, Hachette UK

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• So many things become beautiful when you really look.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Looks, Before I Fall

  "Before I Fall". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2010.

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• I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

  Lauren Oliver

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.242, Hachette UK

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• Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

  Lauren Oliver

  Animal, Unhappy, Erratic

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.156, Hachette UK

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