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**III**

Quotes from DELIRIUM (I'm currently reading it :D)

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“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium 

“Love: It will kill you and save you, both” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I'd rather die my way than live yours.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium 

“Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I found me a werewolf, a nasty old mutt
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my gut.

Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I was stopped by a vampire, a rotting old wreck
It showed me its teeth and went straight for my neck.

Mama, Mama, put me to bed
I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead.
I met an Invalid, and fell for his art
He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

-From "A Child's Walk Home," Nursery Rhymes and Folk Tales” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and
when you don’t.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again.'I'm tired of sleeping.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“It's the way he says my name: like music.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“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, Delirium

“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, Delirium

“But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the
whole world into something greater than itself.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.” 
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium 

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