Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 6

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• Love obeys no laws other than its own.

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  Law

  Lauren Oliver (2012). “Annabel: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

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  Men, Waiting, Forever

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• I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.

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  Love You, I Don't Love You

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

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  World, Delirium

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.

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  Sadness, Self, People

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• Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

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  Believe, Eye, Cutting

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• ...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn't like it, didn't like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun.

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  Sweet, Sick, Laughing

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

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• Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

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  Baby, Pain, Past

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.

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  Rain, Dark, Fighting

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• amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.

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  Beautiful, Feelings, Ordinary

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• Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

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  Dying, Things Change, Can Do

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.

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  Special, Littles, Sometimes

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.52, Harper Collins

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• I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

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  Thinking, Names, Ideas

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• There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.

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  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

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  Fire, Together, Pieces

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• As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

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  Eye, Love At First Sight, Cameras

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

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  Heart, Animal, Scientist

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• I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short

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  Eye, Ugly, Green

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.

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  Moving, Skins, Body

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• Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright as flame and even though I barely see him move, suddenly he has closed the space between us and he’s wrapping his warm hands over my shoulders—fingers so warm and strong I almost cry out—and saying, “Lena. I like you, okay? That’s it. That’s all. I like you.” His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song. I think of predators dropping silently from trees: I think of enormous cats with glowing amber eyes, just like his.

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  Song, I Like You, Strong

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• We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. "Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel.

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  Sides, Fence, Feels

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• For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note for you one time. In the Governor’s fist, you know?” I left a note for you one time. It’s impossible, too crazy to think about, and I hear myself repeating, “You left a note for me?” “I’m pretty sure it said something stupid. Just hi, and a smiley face, and my name. But then you stopped coming.” He shrugs. “It’s probably still there. The note, I mean. Probably just a bit of paper pulp by now.

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  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

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• This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

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  Hatred, Turns, Blockades

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

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  Fire, Growing Stronger, Water

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• The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.

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  Jumping, Hair, Yelling

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