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Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)

In a delightfully sexy and witty new series, USA TODAY bestselling author Karen Hawkins creates an unforgettable couple locked in a marriage that begins with a desperate feud—and ends in seduction. It’s hardly the type of w

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Characters

Lauren Oliver (20)

“Sometimes I feel as though there are two me’s, one coating directly on top of the other: the superficial me, who nods when he’s supposed to nod and says what he’s supposed to say, and some other, deeper part, the part that worries and dreams… Most of the time they move along in sync and I hardly not…”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Personalities, Attitude, Self-awareness, Ideology

“Love: It will kill you and save you, both.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: love quotes, Love and Suffering, For Better or For Worse

“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Give Up

“It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Life is Strange, Life, Waiting

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Togetherness, Inseparable

“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do—the only thing—is run.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories, Letting Go, Move On, Life Quotes

“Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never lose it or give it away.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships

“Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, deadly, Killer

“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: People, Evil, mean

“You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Moving Forward, surviving, Survival

“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships

“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Trust, Disappointment, Friendship

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

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Loss, Pain, Suffering, Goodbyes

“I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Aging, Happiness, Faking it, Panic

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Words, Language, Fear, Joy

“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Hearts, fragile, Careful, Heartbroken

“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: chances, risks, falling, Flying

“It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Patience, Waiting, Past, Memories

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Unhappy, Sadness, comparison

“I'd rather die my way than live yours”

— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com

Tagged: Lauren Oliver, Strong Women, Independent