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“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Once you want something, everything changes.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Why are some things easier to write than say?”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“But if you were Matched," I say softly, "What do you think she'd be like?"
"You," he says, almost before I've finished. "You.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“I climb into the dark for you
Are you waiting in the stars for me?”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“Everyone has something of beauty about them.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces, even to Cassia.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

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

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it.
But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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

“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

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

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“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

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

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

“The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“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

“The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.
'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic

“No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.”
― Lauren Oliver, Panic