Lauren Oliver Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Rain, Wind

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.434, Hachette UK

• And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

  Lauren Oliver

  Running, Pain, Joy

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium (Delirium Trilogy 1)”, p.296, Hachette UK

• They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Wall, Pain

• That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, People, Knows

• When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all I see is color and blur—and in that split second, right as the pain crests, and becomes too much, and there’s a whiteness going through me, I see something to my left, a flicker of color […]—and I know then, too, that if I only turn my head he’ll be there, laughing, watching me, and holding out his arms. I don’t ever turn my head to look, of course. But one day I will. One day I will, and he’ll be back, and everything will be okay. And until then: I run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Running, Pain, Color

• I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Thinking, Grace

• Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

  Lauren Oliver

  Baby, Pain, Past

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.27, Harper Collins

• ...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Past, Glasses

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.128, Hachette UK

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