Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.
("Delirium")
More Quotes from Lauren Oliver:
You have to learn that people are always listening.Lauren Oliver
That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.
Lauren Oliver
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
Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.
Lauren Oliver
Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart.
Lauren Oliver
Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect.
Lauren Oliver
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Death & Dying QuotesBased on Keywords: cupped, murmured, mutter
I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.
Kabir Bedi
Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.
Dario Argento
Ever up and onward.
Billy Strayhorn