Alex Sheathes Quotes

• "Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

  Lauren Oliver

  Tired, Sleep, Eye

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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  I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me

  Lauren Oliver

  Secret, World, Saved

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dancing

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.166, Hachette UK

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

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Flames, Two

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• For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note for you one time. In the Governor’s fist, you know?” I left a note for you one time. It’s impossible, too crazy to think about, and I hear myself repeating, “You left a note for me?” “I’m pretty sure it said something stupid. Just hi, and a smiley face, and my name. But then you stopped coming.” He shrugs. “It’s probably still there. The note, I mean. Probably just a bit of paper pulp by now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Stupid, Mean

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• "And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

  Lauren Oliver

  Love You, Lips, Should

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Kissing, Color

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• Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?" "I don't know any other way." "Let me show you." And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both.

  Lauren Oliver

  Couple, Kissing, Thinking

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• I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, Remember, Delirium

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Change, Animal, Order

  Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

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• But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Flower, Sunset

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• His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Eye, Color

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