Top 100 Lauren Oliver Quotes
#1. Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you.
-Lauren Oliver, Delerium
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#2. Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
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#3. And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.
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#4. I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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#5. There's something backward about living in a place so obsessed with the past; it's like everyone's given up on the idea of a future.
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#6. 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.
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#8. I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.
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#9. We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.
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#11. Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.
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#12. "You're my hero," we both say at the same time. I don't hear Kent move, but all of a sudden his voice is closer, and he's found my hands in the dark, and he's cupping them in his.
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#13. Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from - this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless.
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#14. The flyers lift and sigh in unison, like a thousand people waving white handkerchiefs, a thousand people waving good-bye.
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#15. They looked like butterflies, except that they had the long, pointed beaks of hummingbirds, and they seemed to be made out of darkness and air.
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#17. 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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#18. Like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.
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#19. We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.
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#20. He said it with this really serious look on his face, like he was in the process of farting out some really important wisdom.
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#23. It's us against them, three against countless thousands. But for some reason, and even though it's absurd, at that moment I feel pretty damn good about our odds.
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#24. Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
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#26. I got the thrill of being alive, being on a stupid speck of a planet in the middle of an infinity of nothing, but still alive.
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#27. I run for I don't know how long. Hours, maybe, or days. Alex told me to run. So I run.
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#28. Then he does the absolutely, positively unthinkable.
He winks at me.
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#29. What the hell is the matter with you?" My voice is low. I have to push the words out past the hard lump of anger in my throat. "I - I'm sorry," Alex whispers. He shakes his head. "I didn't mean ... I don't know what happened. I'm sorry, Lena." If
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#30. On the fourth ring there's the sound of fumbling. Then Kent's voice, warm and reassuring: 'Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. How can I help you?
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#31. Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish
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#32. I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.
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#34. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
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#35. Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.
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#36. It's so good I could cry, and Sarah actually does cry, sitting and sobbing in front of her plate.
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#37. Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?"
He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it's like he knows. "Sometimes I'm afraid of what I'm leaving behind," he says.
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#38. The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or
in my case
remember to say good-bye to them at all.
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#39. When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said, Tomorrow. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll do something about it. And they said that until they died.
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#40. It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.
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#41. I'm sure I look like a disaster, red-faced and wild-eyed and close to hysterical - I
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#42. If there is a God, I guess he has nothing to say about it. If there is a God, he must have gotten tired of watching a long time ago.
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#43. Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.
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#44. When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.
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#45. She fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her.
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#47. [S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.
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#48. The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.
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#49. I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.
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#50. I'm glad the choice is made for us. I'm glad I don't have to choose-but more than that, I'm glad I don't have to make someone else choose me.
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#51. The reason you can never go home again isn't necessarily that places change, but people do. So nothing ever looks the same.
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#52. I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.
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#54. The wind whispers Alex's name and the ocean repeats it; the swaying trees make me think of dancing.
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#55. Whatever I was writing, I was always trying to write my way back to you.
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#56. You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
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#57. The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.
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#58. Take down the walls.
Otherwise you must live closely, in fear, building barricades against the unknown, saying prayers against the darkness, speaking verse of terror and tightness.
Otherwise you may never know hell, but you will not find heaven, either. You will not know fresh air and flying.
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#59. I like you.
You don't know me.
I want to, though.
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#60. If you don't watch out, they'll grab you. They'll take you to the underworld and turn you into a bride.
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#62. Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?"
"I'm sure.
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#63. He who falls from the sky may fall but he made also fly
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#64. Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
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#65. And suddenly I am blindingly angry at Raven
for her lectures, and her stubbornness, and for thinking that the way that you help people is by driving them against a wall, by beating them down until they fight back.
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#66. He pauses for only a fraction of a second. Then he leans forward and presses his lips to mine, and the whole world powers off, the moon and the rain and the sky and the streets, and it's just the two of us in the dark, alive, alive, alive.
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#68. You know what your problem is? You want everything to be shitty. You have a sister who loves you. Friends who love you. I love you, Heather.
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#69. Love. I love you. I'll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life.
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#70. 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.
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#71. I'm mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.
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#72. In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying.
Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get to her.
And then ... Well, I'd already died once. I couldn't live through it again.
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#73. Waterbury, he answers immediately. My stomach knots up. I know it's stupid - I know the stakes are higher than the two of us - but I can't help but feel a flash of anger. Of course he disagrees with me. Of course.
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#74. Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?
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#75. My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away.
"A cute idiot," Ally corrects me.
"That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.
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#76. There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.
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#78. Magnetism, my chem teacher would call it. The seeking for a thing of its pair.
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#79. I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand.
"I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again."
I don't trust myself to speak. Instead I nod, hoping that he understands me. He squeezes my hand.
"Go," he says.
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#80. When she was little, she'd liked to pretend that stars were really lights anchoring distant islands, as if she wasn't looking up but only out across a dark sea. She knew the truth now but still found stars comforting, especially in their sameness. A sky full of burning replicas.
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#81. That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.
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#82. If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
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#83. And for a second I feel an overwhelming sense of joy, and I think she's done it, she's flying, and time seems to stop with her glittering in the air like a beautiful bird. But then time resumes, and the air doesn't hold her ...
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#84. the bright, clipped voice that all nurses seem to share, like it's part of their medical training.
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#85. But I am going to keep going. I am going to soar, and soar, and break away - up, up, up into the thundering noise and the wind, like a bird being sucked into the sky.
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#87. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
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#88. The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped
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#89. For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.
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#92. It occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him
his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
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#93. I'm sorry," he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. "I'm sorry for everything.
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#94. There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.
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#95. Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.
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#96. It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
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#98. He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.
It's time to jump.
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#99. Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome.
It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.
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#100. I feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
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