#delirium

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #julian #lauren-oliver #lena #requiem

Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lauren-oliver #lena #pandemonium #love

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#delirium #ennui #itself #life #undone

I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sandman #tattoo #dreams

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hurt #love #rules #strong #love

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lena #love #romance #love

The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lauren-oliver #lena #love #love

What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgottrn how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#love #love

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo. ↗

— Joë Bousquet

#echo #surrealism #surreal

I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#waiting