Delirium Lauren Oliver Love Quotes

#1. For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who you are.
For the people who will infect me in the future
- I can't wait to see who you'll be.
And in both cases:
Thank you.

Lauren Oliver

#2. What's poetry? I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

Lauren Oliver

#3. I don't have the words. I want to touch her, but I don't deserve it.

Holly Black

#4. Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.

Rachel Ward

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

Lauren Oliver

#6. Eventually the girl would discover that sadists tended to be politer than regular Doms - at least, when not in a scene. After all, if a sadist was nasty, then how would he get anyone to play with him?

Cherise Sinclair

#7. I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you."
"You don't know me," I say quickly.
"I want to, though.

Lauren Oliver

#8. A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. One of the most important skills we can develop for collapse is the
capacity to listen.

Carolyn Baker

#10. It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable

Lauren Oliver

#11. I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.

Lauren Oliver

#12. The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface.
Love.

Lauren Oliver

#13. That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

Lauren Oliver

#14. Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

Lauren Oliver

#15. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

Lauren Oliver

#16. We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

Lauren Oliver

#17. 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.

Lauren Oliver

#18. I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

Lauren Oliver

#19. I also knew that for three months, one of the things I seriously missed was making out with him.

Kristen Ashley

#20. Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Lauren Oliver

#21. From anonymous bullying to anonymous murder for hire, the Internet had something for every sick taste.

Kenneth Eade

#22. I've always been bossy.

Shirley Temple