Alex Sheathes Quotes:

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.

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.166, Hachette UK

topic: Dancing, Alex Sheathes

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

- Lauren Oliver

source: "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

topic: Tired, Sleep, Eye, Alex Sheathes, I'm Tired

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

topic: Love, Valentines Day, Soul, Marriage Ceremony, Souls In Love

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Secret, World, Saved, Alex Sheathes

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

source: 1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

topic: Love, Sight, Grace, Marriage Ceremony, Writing Poems

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Fire, Flames, Two, Alex Sheathes

For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note for you one time. In the Governor’s fist, you know?” I left a note for you one time. It’s impossible, too crazy to think about, and I hear myself repeating, “You left a note for me?” “I’m pretty sure it said something stupid. Just hi, and a smiley face, and my name. But then you stopped coming.” He shrugs. “It’s probably still there. The note, I mean. Probably just a bit of paper pulp by now.

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Crazy, Stupid, Mean, Smiley, Pulp

"And I love you too." His fingers skate the edge of my jaw, dance briefly over my lips. "You should know that. You have to know that."

- Lauren Oliver

source: "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

topic: Love You, Lips, Should, I Love You Too, Alex Sheathes

I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have." He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. "Hardly." "Born and raised. You're a transplant." I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. "Country bumpkin!" I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing. "City slicker," he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Country, Kissing, Color, Alex Sheathes, Rolling Over

I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.166, Hachette UK

topic: Want, Normal, Make You Happy, Alex Sheathes

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.35, Hachette UK

topic: Love, Remember, Delirium, Lena Holoway, Alex Sheathes

A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.

- George Lincoln Rockwell

source: Interview with Alex Haley, Playboy, April 1966.

topic: Change, Animal, Order, Alex Sheathes, Beast Of Burden

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Summer, Flower, Sunset, Alex Sheathes

His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Dream, Eye, Color, Alex Sheathes