Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 5

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• There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

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  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

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  Sports, Running, Thinking

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• This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

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  New Beginnings, Different, Would Be

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• My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

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  Heart, Space, Fluid

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• I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

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  Love, Remember, Delirium

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip.

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  Crazy, Spring, Sunset

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• Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.

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  Night, Next, Months

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• ....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.

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  Mistake, Healthy, Brain

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.

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  Fall, Glasses, Air

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

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• Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.

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  Mistake, Artist, Looks

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

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  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wind

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• His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

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  Dream, Eye, Color

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• The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

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  Coffee, Sunset, Ice Cream

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.262, Hachette UK

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• Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

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  Breathing, Two, Space

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• That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.

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  Realizing, Relentless, Thrust

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• That is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb.

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  Hatred, Towers, Turns

  "Pandemonium". Book by Lauren Oliver, 2012.

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• No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.

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  Facts, Cry

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Panic”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

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  Country, Kissing, Color

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• Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.

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  Lying, Believe, People

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Raven: A Delirium Short Story (Ebook)”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Moon

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• The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.

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  Bye, Parent, Feelings

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever had in my life.” “But I’ve never kissed you,” he whispers back. Around us the rain sounds like falling glass. “Not since third grade, anyway.” I smile, but I’m not sure if he can see it. “Better get started, then,” I say, “because I don’t have much time.

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  Rain, Fall, Kissing

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• Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

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  Hate, Love You, Forgive Me

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

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• We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.

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  Needs, Stories, Mantras

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• This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

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  Hatred, Lost, Wanted

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