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LAUREN OLIVER

A NOVELIST EXPLORING THE COMPLEXITIES OF LOVE AND ITS TRANSFORMATIVE POWER

Lauren Oliver's quotes reveal a deep fascination with the complexities and transformative nature of love. Her exploration of 'amor-deliria-nervosa'—a fictional disease representing the chaotic yet essential experience of love—is a recurring theme. In her words, love is both an affliction and a necessity, as seen in the quote, 'If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.' This captures the inevitability and vulnerability of human connection.

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Love
Amor-deliria-nervosa

Lauren Oliver Quotes (5)

"If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love."
Pandemonium
LOVE
"And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return."
Requiem
LOVE
"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
Delirium
LOVE
"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."
Delirium
LOVE
"I love you. Remember. They cannot take it"
Delirium
LOVEAMOR-DELIRIA-NERVOSA

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