Deliria Quotes

“For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.
For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Sometimes it is necessary that individuals are sacrificed for the the health of the whole.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium