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It's the way he says my name: like music.

It's the way he says my name: like music.

Lauren Oliver
Names, Way
Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.69, Harper Collins

It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

Lauren Oliver
Hurt, Bullshit, May
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.141, Hachette UK

I feel like I'm playing some giant video game, or trying to solve a really complicated math equation. 'One girl is trying to avoid forty raiding parties of between fifteen to twenty people each, spread out across a radius of seven miles. If she has to make it 2.7 miles through the center, what is the probablitiy she will wake up tomorrow morning in a jail cell? Please feel free to round pi to 3.14'.

Lauren Oliver
Girl, Morning, Party
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.153, Hachette UK

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.

Lauren Oliver
Wall, Nice, Garden
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.242, Hachette UK

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
Thinking, Skills, Perfect

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.

Lauren Oliver
Strength, Courage, Wall

I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.

Lauren Oliver
Eye, Drifting Off, Dust
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.259, Hachette UK

Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.

Lauren Oliver
Sky, Thank You God, Lasts

Because?' I prompt 'Because I'm sorry, but I can't help it, and I really need to kiss you right now.

Lauren Oliver
Sorry, Kissing, Needs

Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.

Lauren Oliver
Flying, Fine, Mice

It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games