Lauren Oliver Quotes about Hurt

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Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Lauren Oliver

Hurt, Stones, Lasts

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, Harper Collins

You must hurt, or be hurt.

Lauren Oliver

Hurt

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, 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

They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

Lauren Oliver

Hurt, Wall, Pain

It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Lauren Oliver

Hurt, Wall, Lying

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, Harper Collins