Lauren Oliver Quotes - Page 9

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• Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die

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  Knees, Live Free, Dies

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• It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

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  Thinking, People, Strange

  "Before I Fall". Book by Lauren Oliver, February 14, 2010.

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• He looked at me like I was beautiful.

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  Beautiful

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• Every choice is limited. That's life.

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  Choices

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• I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

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  Prayer, Fall, Tired

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Life isn't life if you just float through it.

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  Floats, Ifs

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• Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs

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  Mother, Puff, Lord

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

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  Stupid, Mind, Trying

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• It is war now, and armies need symbols.

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  War, Army, Needs

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• I love you. They can't take it away.

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  Love You

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• The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.

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  Hands, Ideas, Legs

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.

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  Dream, Wall, Fall

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.38, HarperCollins

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• I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out." Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

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  Worry, Hug, Figures

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• I used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the sky.' She rolls over on her back so she's staring up as well. 'Bet this view hasn't changed much, has it?' What she says is so simple i almost laugh. She's right, of course. 'No. This looks exactly the same.' I suppose that's the secret, If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.

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  Summer, Lying, Simple

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• Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead? Do you think I was being stupid? Naive? Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me. I thought I would live forever too.

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  Stupid, Thinking, Judging

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.57, HarperCollins

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• It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.

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  Children, Taken, Darkness

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

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  Change, Letting Go, Running

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• Sometimes I feel as though there are two me's, one coasting directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when she's supposed to nod and says what she's supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams... Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly notice the split, but sometimes it feels as though I'm two whole different people and I could rip apart at any second.

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  Dream, Rip, Moving

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.

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  Ocean, White, Teeth

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• Some things are better left buried and forgotten.

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  Forgotten, Buried, Left

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.7, HarperCollins

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• Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

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  Water, Fingers, Leap

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• I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.

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  Hate, Heart, House

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• They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

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  Lying, Disease, Firsts

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• That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.

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  Pain, People, Knows

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• "Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

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  Tired, Sleep, Eye

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

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