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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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“Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”

People World Want Choices Courses Left Pieces Picks Disappear

Author:Lauren Oliver

“people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”

People Sometimes Reason Terrible Terrible Things

Author:Lauren Oliver

“People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.”

People Giving Order Ants

Book:Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex

Source: Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex

“Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.”

People Believe Ends Matter Stories Lying Truthful

Book:Raven: A Delirium Short Story (Ebook)

Source: Raven: A Delirium Short Story (Ebook)

“Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose either. If we didn't get our hearts stomped on, shattered: if we didn't have to patch and repatch until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together and bound up by who knows what. If we could just float along, like snow. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosions of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?”

“Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?”

People World Giving Beautiful Welcome Wrong Things Free World

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“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.”

People Knows I Can Past Waiting Cases Who You Are Amor Delirium

Book:Delirium

Source: Delirium

“You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.”

People Should Fall Love You Falling In Love

Author:Lauren Oliver

“It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.”

People Life Should Sides Failing One Thing Warning Cigarette Packs Unfair Involvement

Book:Rooms

Source: Rooms

“People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.”

People Whole Facts House Walks Rooms Doors Objects Standing Structure Corners Invisible Mechanism Wiring

Author:Lauren Oliver

“This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.”

People Knows Blind Guessing

Author:Lauren Oliver

About the Author

Born: 1982
Known for: Author
Quotes: 686

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Before I FallRelated source material

Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, RequiemRelated source material

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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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