Requiem Lauren Oliver Quotes

#1. And then she left, and it broke my heart so completely I could hardly breathe.

Lauren Oliver

#2. When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

Dorothy Rowe

#3. The perfect human falls.

Jorgen Leth

#4. This woman who wants to lead a revolution for love and doesn't even acknowledge her own daughter

Lauren Oliver

#5. Numbness was what I craved. It was the rope I used to climb out of the black hole I'd otherwise be trapped in. Numbness was my savior, not my fear.

Bella Forrest

#6. I kept telling him sex isn't the oldest profession, it's politics,

Carol Van Natta

#7. 'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

Lauren Oliver

#8. Shhh."my mother said She presses her lips to my forehead, strokes my hair, just like she used to when I was a child. I am a baby once again in her arms - helpless and needy. "I'm here now.

Lauren Oliver

#9. 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

#10. There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things I've loved.

Lauren Oliver

#11. Perfume must not be linked just to fashion because that means that one day it will go out of style.

Thierry Mugler

#12. 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.

Lauren Oliver

#13. For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

Terry Southern

#14. Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

Lauren Oliver

#15. Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Ludwig Borne

#16. For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons.
You were right; I was wrong. Get it out.

Lauren Oliver

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

Lauren Oliver

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

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. Expect guests when the crow crows.

Aporva Kala

#21. 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.

Lauren Oliver

#22. 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.

Lauren Oliver