Quotes About Lena In Delirium

#1. Our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.

Lauren DeStefano

#2. I like you.
You don't know me.
I want to, though.

Lauren Oliver

#3. Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness.

Harold Klemp

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.

Lauren Oliver

#7. His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

Lauren Oliver

#8. With the same people who had never dreamed their way out of here.

Lauren Oliver

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand
having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

M.M. Kaye

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

Lauren Oliver

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Lauren Oliver

#17. Then I'm glad I'm your first.

Sylvain Reynard

#18. 'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.

Aidan Gillen

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Congress also did something new, which is, they delayed for two years two new taxes - one on medical devices and one on high-end health insurance plans. Those taxes are supposed to help pay for President Obama's health care law, but they're really unpopular.

Susan Davis

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

Lauren Oliver

#23. 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

#24. Today's stories are tomorrow's legends.

Gaddy Bergmann

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. You can't cheat if there are no rules

Lauren Oliver

#28. He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

Lauren Oliver