Top 36 Delirium Lauren Oliver Quotes
#1. Mama, Mama, put me to bed
I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead
I met an Invalid, and fell for his art
He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.
Lauren Oliver
#2. 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
#3. And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.
Lauren Oliver
#4. I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
Lauren Oliver
#5. It's like there's a glass wall between us now, invisible but impenetrable
Lauren Oliver
#6. This is one symptom of the deliria no one ever tells you about: Apparently the disease turns you into a world-class liar.
Lauren Oliver
#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. I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
Lauren Oliver
#9. When I can no longer go forward, even by an inch, I lay my head on the ground and wait to die. I'm too tired to be frightened. Above me is blackness, and all around me is blackness, and the forest sounds are a symphony to sing me out of this world. I am already at my funeral.
Lauren Oliver
#10. That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
Lauren Oliver
#11. Most things, even the greatest moments on earth, have their beginnings in something small. An earthquake that shatters a city might begin with a tremor, a tremble, a breath. Music begins with a vibration.
Lauren Oliver
#12. As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud.
Lauren Oliver
#13. All I can think is: I need air. The rest of my thoughts are a blur of radio static and fluorescent lights and lab coats and steel tables and surgical knives
Lauren Oliver
#14. 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
#15. With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.
Lauren Oliver
#17. Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.
Lauren Oliver
#18. He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
Lauren Oliver
#19. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust
and also to make you feel so whole?
Lauren Oliver
#20. I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
Lauren Oliver
#22. I wish I could close my eyes and be
blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind.
Lauren Oliver
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else - every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss - has meant nothing.
Lauren Oliver
#26. Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
Lauren Oliver
#27. 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
#28. I like you.
You don't know me.
I want to, though.
Lauren Oliver
#29. His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
Lauren Oliver
#30. With the same people who had never dreamed their way out of here.
Lauren Oliver
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Amazing, how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
Lauren Oliver
#34. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
Lauren Oliver
#35. 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
#36. Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.
Lauren Oliver
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