Lauren Oliver Quotes About Leaving

Quotes about: Leaving

• Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sleep, Leaving, Sometimes

• Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sleep, Leaving, Littles

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.260, Hachette UK

• Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

  Lauren Oliver

  Breathing, Two, Space

• I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Sorry, Leaving, Wonder

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.60, Harper Collins

• And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Life, Dream, Broken

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.262, Hachette UK

• All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Leaving, Growing

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.17, Hachette UK

• I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

• Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

  Lauren Oliver

  Book, Leaving, Finishing

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