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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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“Because I am terrified by what I want: for him, and worst of all, from him. Because I do want. I'm not even sure what, exactly, but the want is there, just like the hate and anger were there before. But this is not a tower. It is an endless, tunneling pit; it drives deep, and opens a hole inside me.”

Want Hate Hatred Anger

Book:Pandemonium

Source: Pandemonium

“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”

Want Kids Young Wish Wish You Being A Kid Before I Fall

Author:Lauren Oliver

“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.”

Want Feels Moments Happens Waiting Forever Changed Strange That Moment Want Something Curls Delirium

Book:Delirium

Source: Delirium

“That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.”

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.”

Want Body Hate Forever Skins I Hate Bones Curls

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment; desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.”

Want Desire Enjoy Mistake Brain Enemy Healthy Illness Contentment Flaws

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.”

Want Whole Perfect Fire Iron Healed Glowing Razors Slabs

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

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

“This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.”

Want Moments Wanted Kissing Delirium

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.”

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

“I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?”

Want Normal Make You Happy

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.”

People Ifs Want Saved

Book:Liesl & Po

Source: Liesl & Po

“Waste today, want tomorrow.”

Want Today Tomorrow Waste

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.”

Want Happens Darkness What You Want Holding On Grabbing

Author:Lauren Oliver

“They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.”

Want Loses Taken Already Taken

Book:Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)

Source: Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)

“I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.”

Author:Lauren Oliver

“Here's something else you might as well learn now: If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else. That's a rule too. And something must die so that others can live.”

Ifs Want Wells Might Dies Want Something

Book:Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

Source: Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem

“An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.”

Way Want Feelings Body Blood Thousand Ran Scream Mosquitoes Biting Itchy

Book:Delirium

Source: Delirium

“What does it feel like to be infected?" "I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't breathe, can't breathe, can't breathe. His skin smells like smoke from a wood fire, like soap, like heaven. I imagine tasting his skin; I imagine biting his lips. "I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.”

Knows Want Feels Doe I Can Force Heaven Fire Imagine Skins Lips Woods Smell Breathe Smoke Soap Tasting Biting

Author:Lauren Oliver

“If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.”

Ifs Want Want Something

Author:Lauren Oliver

“And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry.”

Knows Want Should Stuff Break Heard Cry Down And Incredibles Scream Up And Down Amazing Music

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

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

“We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.”

Want Trying Hands Together Walks Kissing And Love Broads Love Each Other Daylight Holding Hands

Author:Lauren Oliver

“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”

People World Way Want Strange Warrior Requiem

Author:Lauren Oliver

“No guest rooms.” I shake my head resolutely. “I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.”

Want Rooms Shakes Guests

Author:Lauren Oliver

“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

“I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop”

Knows Want Heart Know How Feet My Heart Dust

Book:Requiem

Source: Requiem

About the Author

Born: 1982
Known for: Author
Quotes: 686

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