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I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me. Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick

I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me. Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.

Lauren Oliver
Sick, Feelings, Growing
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.217, Hachette UK

I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.

Lauren Oliver
War, Thinking, Feelings
Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.64, Harper Collins

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.

Lauren Oliver
Inspirational, Fall, Feelings
Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.217, Hachette UK

The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.

Lauren Oliver
Bye, Parent, Feelings
Lauren Oliver (2015). “The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing Girls”, p.8, HarperCollins

amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.

Lauren Oliver
Beautiful, Feelings, Ordinary

I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Lauren Oliver
Dust, Feelings, Way

The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.

Lauren Oliver
Kissing, Feelings, New Life
Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.13, Harper Collins

My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.

Lauren Oliver
Feelings, Stomach, Can Do

If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

Lauren Oliver
Light, Laughing, Feelings

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
Blood, Feelings, Mosquitoes
Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.28, Harper Collins

I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.

Lauren Oliver
Light, Laughing, Feelings

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