Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"Everything else is nothing."
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"An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older"
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"I'd never undetstood how Hana Could lie so often and easily. But just like anyhting else, lying becomes easier the more you do it."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"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, Delirium
"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, Delirium
"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."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"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."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short"
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"Amazingly, I can still see the stars: whole galaxies blooming from nothing - pink and purple suns, vast silver oceans, a thousand white moons."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen."
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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