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I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

Lauren Oliver

Romantic, Hero, Long

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Happiness is found when no one is looking

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Found

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You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.

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Strength, Courage, Wall

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Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium

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Mom, Love You, Blame

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"And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

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Love You, Lips, Should

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

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No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.

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Ice Cream, People, Guy

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.

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Fall, Swimming, Thinking

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Step on a crack , you'll break your mama's back. Step on a stone, you'll end up all alone. Step on a stick, you're bound to get the Sick. Watch where you tread, you'll bring out all the dead. - A common children's playground chant, usually accompanied by jumping rope or clapping.

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Children, Jumping, Sick

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.27, Harper Collins

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Nothing exists but him.

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Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.

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Sadness, Space, Miracle

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.49, Hachette UK

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I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.

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Would Be, Answers, Wanted

Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.171, Hachette UK

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That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in America—probably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.

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Growing Up, School, Kids

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

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Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.

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Writing, Worry, Make Sense

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One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

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World, Littles, Spheres

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Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure.

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Littles

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.138, Hachette UK

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...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

Lauren Oliver

Hate, Refusal

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People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.

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Heart, Roots, People

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I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose Point, and I picked it up and it died there, taking its final gasping fluttering breaths in my palm.

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Baby, Hands, Bird

Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.203, Hachette UK

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Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

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Fun, Kids, Talking

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He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent If we had ten thousand billion years.

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Eye, Cities, Light

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

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It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

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Coffee, Lines, Way

Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.20, Harper Collins

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Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "When you go swimming and you put your head under the water," Po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? You don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. It's just different." "True." Liesl was quiet for a moment. Then she added, "But I bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. I bet you'd really miss the air then."

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Swimming, Air, Water

"Liesl & Po". Book by Lauren Oliver, September 29, 2011.

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The alchemist was dazed and dumbfounded, as the true meaning of the magic was revealed: *The dead will rise from glade to glen and ancient will be young again*. The dead had, after all, risen. From dead and dry things there was growth, and new life everywhere. And the endlessly long winter had at last turned to spring. From life to death and back again to life. It was indeed the greatest magic in the world.

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Spring, Healing, Winter

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Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

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Orange, Black, Red

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.19, Harper Collins

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It's the time of the night I like best, when most people are asleep and it feels like the world belongs completely to my friends and me, as though nothing exists apart from out little circle: everywhere else is darkness and quiet.

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Night, Circles, People

Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.33, HarperCollins

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