Quotes from Lauren Oliver, Delirium

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

Every choice is limited. That's life.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anything about it: like eating ice cream so fast on a hot day you get a splitting headache.

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.

...into hate, into refusal, against hope and without fear

I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go.

Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

I told you, " he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me, " I say quickly."I want to, though.

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.

Everything else is nothing.

I met an Invalid, and fell for his art. He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.

What's poetry?" I've never heard the word before, but I like the sound of it. It sounds elegant and easy, somehow, like a beautiful woman turning in a long dress.

Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

And there it is: Even though we're standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.