{"quotes":[{"text":"Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go.Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["grief","lauren-oliver"],"id":6240,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"It's weird how much people change...It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a 'young adult', and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","inspirational","lauren-oliver","life","people","teenage","young","youth"],"id":8363,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["fiction","lauren-oliver","rooms"],"id":47042,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex-sheathes","burning-up","delirium","fire","lauren-oliver","lena-holloway","love","sweet","touch"],"id":65051,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex-sheathes","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena-holloway","love","sweet"],"id":67635,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","inspirational","lauren-oliver"],"id":69509,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["games","lauren-oliver","panic","rules"],"id":83999,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","love","romance"],"id":133237,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","romance"],"id":158649,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?'I don't know any other way.'Let me show you.'And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","romance"],"id":163653,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}