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“It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of autumn, when the air is crisp and the leaves are all flaring at the edges and the wind smells just vaguely of smoke - like the end and the beginning of something all at once.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go.

Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.
It kills you.
Alex.
When you have it.
Alex.
And when you don't.
Alex.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Waste today, want tomorrow...”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“In a world without love, this is what people are to each other: values, benefits, and liabilities, numbers and data. We weigh, we quantify, we measure, and the soul is ground to dust.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“Live free or die.
Four words. Thirteen letters. Ridges, bumps, swirls under my fingertips.
Another story. We cling tightly to it, and our belief turns it to truth.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
― Zlata Filipović

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
― Gustav Flaubert

“The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.”
― Beth Lisick

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”
― Marianne Moore

“نحن نخطئ دوماً حينما نظن أنّ الذين نحبهم معصومون من الموت”
― واسيني الأعرج, سوناتا لأشباح القدس

“كم أتمنى لو كان إنسانًا تافهًا أو عاديًا، لنسيته بسرعة وانصرفت للحياة، ولكنه كان شيئًا أخر.. لم يشبه أحدًا ولم يكن أحد يشبهه.. العزاء مع هؤلاء الناس يزداد صعوبة، بل يصير فعلًا مستحيلًا.”
― واسيني الأعرج, طوق الياسمين

“الحُب عندما يتضاءل بين شخصين يحتاج الى شيئين حادين
إما هزةٌ عنيفه تعيد له وهجه الكبير , أو الى بتر ٍ شُجاع للعلاقه
يقبل فيها الطرفُ الأكثر حساسيّه التنحي من المشهد
وتحمل القدر الأكبر من الخساره .”
― واسيني الأعرج