Anna Hermann > Anna Hermann's Quotes

“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”
― Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium

“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.

It’s time to jump.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“This is what amazes me: that people are new every day. That they are never the same. You must always invent them, and they must always invent themselves, too.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“There are some losses we never get over.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem