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Lauren Oliver QUOTES

Lauren Oliver QUOTES

1 " I love you. Remember. They cannot take it "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

2 " I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

3 " I know that the whole point—the only point—is to
find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to
let them go. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

4 " 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. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

5 " And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

6 " And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return. "

― Lauren Oliver , Requiem (Delirium, #3)

7 " Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

8 " If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love. "

― Lauren Oliver , Pandemonium (Delirium, #2)

9 " Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.
But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.
We are even free to choose the wrong thing. "

― Lauren Oliver , Requiem (Delirium, #3)

10 " I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

11 " Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

12 " We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it. "

― Lauren Oliver , Requiem (Delirium, #3)

13 " Live free or die. "

― Lauren Oliver , Requiem (Delirium, #3)

14 " Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side. "

― Lauren Oliver , Delirium (Delirium, #1)

15 " Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn. "

― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

16 " Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450 "

― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

17 " 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 "

― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

18 " It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility. "

― Lauren Oliver , Panic (Panic, #1)

19 " There are so many things I want to tell her, so many things she doesn't know; like how I remember when she first came home from the hospital, a big pink blob with a perma-smile, and she used to fall asleep while grabbing on to my pinter finger; how I sued to give her piggyback rides up and down the beach on Cape Cod, and she would tub on my ponytail to direct me one way or the other; how soft and furry her head was when she was first born; that the first time you kiss someone you'll be nervous, and it will be weird, and it won't be as good as you want it to be, and that's okay; how you should only fall in love with people who will fall in love back... I feel an ache in my throat, but i manage to smile. Two conflicting desires go through me at the same time, each as sharp as a razor blade: I want to see you grow up and Don't ever change. "

― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

20 " If I could make it better I would,” he says. In some ways it’s a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the way he said it, so honest and simple like it’s the truest thing there is, makes the tears prick in my eyes. (Before I Fall) "

― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall