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Lauren Oliver (born Laura Suzanne Schechter; November 8, 1982) is an American author of numerous young adult novels including Panic, the Delirium trilogy; Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, and Before I Fall, which became a major motion picture in 2017. Her novels have been translated into more than thirty languages internationally. Oliver is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the middle-grade fantasy novel The Spindlers.

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my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.

Heart, Erratic, Incomprehensible, Uncured, Wild

I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip.

Boldness, Bright, Crazy, Hole, Spring, Sunset

Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.

Decay, Heart, Race, Stake, Summer, Whole

Both of us will die today, gunned down or smashed up or exploded in some terrible moment of fire and twisted metal, and when they go to bury us we'll be so melted together and entwined they won't be able to separate the bodies; pieces of him will go with me, and pieces of me will go with him.

Exploded, Fire, Melted, Metal, Pieces, Together

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them.

Build, Sky, Wall, Walls, Way

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

Closure, Controversial, People, Requiem

Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.

Flower, Flowers, Morning, Red, Summer, Week

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

Bones, Forever, Hate, Skin, Skins

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

Beautiful, Butterfly, Seconds, Single, Wind

This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.

People, Invent, Same, Amazes, Day

Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

Eye, Lazy, Popularity, See, Thing

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

Care, Chance, Die, Protect, Taken

It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

Care, Razors, Shredding, Think, Thinking

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.

Hands, Kissing, Together, Trying, Walk

I feel an overwhelming rush of sadness. . . I'm just struck with a sense of time passing so quickly, rushing forward. One day I'll wake up and my whole life will be behind me, and it will seem to have gone as quickly as a dream.

Day, Dream, Rushing, Sadness, Struck, Time

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

Beginning, Different, Good, Kind, New Beginnings, Would Be

No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

Annoyed, Boys, Confused, Girl, Segregation, Time

I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.

Different, Light, Sky, Starved

The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.

Elses, Life, Memories, Seems, Snapshots

Po flickered. "Thank you?" it repeated. "What is that?" Liesl thought. "It means, You were wonderful," she said. "It means, I couldn't have done it without you.

Done, Mean, Said, Thank, Wonderful

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