Delirium quote:
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever
“I’ve been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven’t considered that they’re also penning us in.”
- Delirium, Lauren Oliver
“The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.”
- Pandemonium, Lauren Oliver
“People themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.”
- Lena
“I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind. But his hands keep pulling me back: into the alley, and Portland, and a world that has suddenly stopped making sense.”
“He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.”
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you-sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.” - Lena Haloway
“I run for I don’t know how long. Hours, maybe, or days. Alex told me to run. So I run. You have to understand. I am no one special. I am just a single girl. I am five feet two inches tall and I am in-between in every way. But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope,and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
At this point in the book I was in tears.
“Hearts are fragile things. That’s why you have to be so careful.”
- Lena
All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie.
She was learning to love.- Hana
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
- Lena, Delirium
Annasophia Robb as Hana.
“There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.”
- Hana
