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I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless.

I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.

Lauren Oliver
Past, Wind, Broken

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

Lauren Oliver
Past, Weight, Stones
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.130, 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

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

Lauren Oliver
Wall, Mean, Past

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

Lauren Oliver
Past, Self, Killers
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.761, Hachette UK

This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.

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

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

Lauren Oliver
Past, Layers, Dirt

it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

Lauren Oliver
Grief, Past, Resistance
Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

...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

Over the past week, I’ve accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

Lauren Oliver
Wall, Past, Ideas
Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.235, Hachette UK

In my head I try and reach back, through the fence, past the smoke; I try and grab his hand and pull. Alex, come back. There is nothing to do but sink. The hours close around me, encase me completely, like a tomb.

Lauren Oliver
Past, Hands, Trying
Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.10, Harper Collins

Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.

Lauren Oliver
Past, Two, People
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you.

Lauren Oliver
Past, People, Waiting
Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.2, Harper Collins

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