Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 3

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• Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?" Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you.

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  Mean, Done, Wonderful

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.67, Hachette UK

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

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  Grief, Disbelief, Mines

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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.

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  Thinking, Borders, Used

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

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Different, Ends, Form

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

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  Friday, Happy Friday, Way

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

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

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  Perfect

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

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• There's always some relief in giving up.

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  Giving Up, Giving, Relief

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

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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?

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  Beautiful, People, Giving

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

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

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  Way, Chosen, One Way

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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.

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  People, Guessing, Blind

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

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  Shadow, Way, Demon

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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.

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  Summer, Heart, Race

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

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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.

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  Dream, Sadness, Rushing

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

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

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  Movement, Earth

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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.

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  Secret, Wish, Looks

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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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

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  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.

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  Animal, Unhappy, Erratic

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

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