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Lauren Oliver Quotes about Pain

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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

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.

Lauren Oliver
Running, Pain, Joy
Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium (Delirium Trilogy 1)”, p.296, Hachette UK

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

Lauren Oliver
Pain, Rain, Wind
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.434, Hachette UK

Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

Lauren Oliver
Baby, Pain, Past
Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.27, Harper Collins

When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all I see is color and blur—and in that split second, right as the pain crests, and becomes too much, and there’s a whiteness going through me, I see something to my left, a flicker of color […]—and I know then, too, that if I only turn my head he’ll be there, laughing, watching me, and holding out his arms. I don’t ever turn my head to look, of course. But one day I will. One day I will, and he’ll be back, and everything will be okay. And until then: I run.

Lauren Oliver
Running, Pain, Color

...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

Lauren Oliver
Pain, Past, Glasses
Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.128, Hachette UK

I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.

Lauren Oliver
Pain, Thinking, Grace

That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.

Lauren Oliver
Pain, People, Knows

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

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