Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliver
Lauren Oliveris an American author of the New York Times bestselling YA novels Before I Fall, which was published in 2010; Panic; and the Delirium trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a 2012 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award nominee for her middle-grade novel Liesl & Po, as well as author of the fantasy middle-grade novel The Spindlers. Panic, which was published in March 2014, has been optioned by Universal Pictures in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth8 November 1982
CityQueens, NY
CountryUnited States of America
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again
He was still in love with you, anyway.
Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.
For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons. You were right; I was wrong. Get it out.
This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.
There are some losses we never get over.
I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.
Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.
The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.
We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer.