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Lauren Oliver, born in 1982, is an accomplished American author known for her profound emotional depth and imaginative storytelling. Her works have garnered widespread acclaim and have resonated with readers around the world.

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“His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.”

Love Romance Alex Delirium Lena

Book:Delirium

Source: Delirium

“Soy un mentiroso. Siempre estuve mintiendo. Ella se merecía un ángel, y yo quería serlo por ella.”

Alex Delirium Delirium Trilogy Lauren Oliver

Book:Alex

Source: Alex

“Déjame decirte algo sobre morir: no es tan malo como dicen. Es traer de vuelta a la vida partes que hieren.”

Alex Delirium Delirium Trilogy Lauren Oliver

Book:Alex

Source: Alex

“En mi mente, yo estaba reviviendo toda mi vida de nuevo - lentamente, tomando mi tiempo. Retrasándolo. Porque sabía que, tarde o temprano, llegaría a ella. Y entonces... Bueno, ya había muerto una vez. No podría sobrevivir a esto, otra vez.”

Alex Delirium Delirium Trilogy Lauren Oliver

Book:Alex

Source: Alex

“Estaba pensando en Lena. Por supuesto. Siempre estaba pensando en Lena.”

Alex Delirium Delirium Trilogy Lauren Oliver

Book:Alex

Source: Alex

“Extiendo la mano y paso un dedo a lo largo de su clavícula, mi lugar favorito: como las siluetas de unas pequeñas alas.”

Alex Delirium Delirium Trilogy Lauren Oliver

Book:Alex

Source: Alex

“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things. It kills you. Alex. When you have it. Alex. And when you don't. Alex.”

Alex Pandemonium Alex Sheathes

Book:Pandemonium

Source: Pandemonium

“At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.”

Romance Sleep Dreams Alex

Book:Pandemonium

Source: Pandemonium

“"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."”

Years Eye Sleep Lovers Tired Awake His Eyes Alex Whispering I'm Tired Alex Sheathes

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.”

Dies Term My Own Alex Delirium

Author:Lauren Oliver

“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.”

Trying Hands Past Hours Smoke Fence Alex Tombs

Book:Pandemonium

Source: Pandemonium

“I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m too outraged to speak. He’s lying. I know he’s the one I saw yesterday, would bet my life on it. “Alex. Nice to meet you.” Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake hands. Then he extends a hand to me. “Lena,” he says thoughtfully. “I’ve never heard that name before.”

Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem

“For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note for you one time. In the Governor’s fist, you know?” I left a note for you one time. It’s impossible, too crazy to think about, and I hear myself repeating, “You left a note for me?” “I’m pretty sure it said something stupid. Just hi, and a smiley face, and my name. But then you stopped coming.” He shrugs. “It’s probably still there. The note, I mean. Probably just a bit of paper pulp by now.”

Thinking Knows Mean Said Stills Faces Names Left Easy Bits Silence Impossible Crazy Stupid Paper Notes One Time Governors Fists Alex Pulp Smiley Smiley Face Alex Sheathes

Author:Lauren Oliver

“amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.”

Feelings Beautiful Used Ordinary Forgotten Supposed To Be Chests Hollow Alex Feeling Beautiful

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.”

Firsts I Can Book Reason Alex

Author:Lauren Oliver

“And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.”

Wells Might Speak Language Secret Wall Tales Fairy Fairy Tale Alex Thorns Giggle

Book:Hana: A Delirium Short Story

Source: Hana: A Delirium Short Story

“I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.”

People Knows Lost Sadness Filled Who I Am Overwhelmed Old People Alex

Author:Lauren Oliver

“That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy”

Boys Shadow Alex

Author:Lauren Oliver

“In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex”

Sleep Alex Tents

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

“Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.”

Done Felt Okay Buried Alex Blown Away

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

“My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind I Can Might Love Is Bears Possession Former Poison Alex Wrong Love

Book:Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)

Source: Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)

“But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.”

Ifs Has Beens Forgiving Guilt Caught Deeper Dust Jealous Layers Alex Forgive Me God Forgives God Forgive Me

Author:Lauren Oliver

“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.”

Ideas Past Week Wall Accepted Overwhelming Alex Over The Past

Book:Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)

Source: Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)

“For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.”

Splits Alex

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.”

Ifs Has Beens Caught Jealous Alex

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.”

World Has Beens Left Behinds Cutting Cry Mom My Mom Our World Abandoned Left Behind Alex

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I remember Lena's expression when he knocked on the door; and how Alex had looked at her when she finally let him into the storeroom. I remember exactly what he was wearing, too, and the mess of his hair, the sneakers with their blue-tinged laces. His right shoe was untied. He didn't notice. He didn't notice anything but Lena.”

Remember Doors Expression Hair Blue Shoes Mess Alex Lace Sneakers

Author:Lauren Oliver

“I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand. "I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again." I don't trust myself to speak. Instead I nod, hoping that he understands me. He squeezes my hand. "Go," he says.”

Hands Eye Remember Speak Alex Don't Trust Understand Me Letting You Go Trust Myself

Author:Lauren Oliver

About the Author

Born: 1982
Known for: Author
Quotes: 686

Books & Sources

Before I FallRelated source material

Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, RequiemRelated source material

DeliriumRelated source material

RequiemRelated source material

PandemoniumRelated source material

Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, RequiemRelated source material

The Lauren Oliver Collection: Before I Fall, Panic, Vanishing GirlsRelated source material

Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and AlexRelated source material

Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)Related source material

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