Lauren Oliver Quotes: 44

• I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

  Delirium

• You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

  Delirium

• Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.

  Before I Fall

• So many things become beautiful when you really look.

  Before I Fall

• I'd rather die my way than live yours.

  Delirium

• I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

  Delirium

• I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

  Before I Fall

• Love: It will kill you and save you, both

  Delirium

• It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

  Delirium

• Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

  Delirium

• I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.

  Delirium

• And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

  Delirium

• I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

  Before I Fall

• And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

  Requiem

• He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.

  Delirium

• Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

  Delirium

• If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

  Pandemonium

• But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

  Pandemonium

• But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

  Requiem

• Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.

  Requiem

• 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.

  Before I Fall

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

  Delirium

• Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you."And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both.

  Delirium

• We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

  Requiem

• Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

  Delirium

• In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.

  Before I Fall

• Live free or die.

  Requiem

• 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.

  Delirium

• Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

  Before I Fall

• 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.

  Delirium

• And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.

  Before I Fall

• It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you’d lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility.

  Panic

• Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

  Delirium

• And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

  Hana

• Hope keeps you alive.

  Before I Fall

• With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

  Requiem

• What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

  Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven

• Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.

  Before I Fall

• Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

  Requiem

• 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.

  Pandemonium

• Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

  Delirium

• They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

  Before I Fall

• God bless Dunkin' Donuts.

  Before I Fall

• Aquí hay algo más que recordar: la esperanza te mantiene viva. Incluso cuando estás muerta, es lo único que te mantiene viva.

  Before I Fall