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“When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said, Tomorrow. Tomorrow, perhaps, I'll do something about it. And they said that until they died.”
— Lauren Oliver, Liesl & Po
Tagged: Afraid, Fear, tomorrow, Death
“We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: killers, Life, Past, excuses
“Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Anger, Rage, careless, Feelings
“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: People, Evil, mean
“It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day, you can think you know them and then you found out you hardly know them at all.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: People, Knowledge, Secrets
“I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble into each other, heads down, hoping to avoid collision. I... wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, little rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Truth, Lies, Secrets
“The house I grew up in was haunted to high Hell. There were a couple of deaths on the property that we knew of before the house was redone (it was a Habitat for Humanity rebuild). There was always creepy stuff going on and bad feelings emanating from certain rooms, but the most terrifying thing that happened to me was when I was home alone.

The living room, where I was watching TV late one evening, was separated from the kitchen by a wall with one of those breakfast bar-type ‘windows’ that let you see into either area from the other side. Out of nowhere, I hear the silverware drawer sliding open and not-quite-shut repeatedly, making the silverware clatter. I didn’t dare look over my shoulder, and simply said, ‘Stop it!’.

And it did.

Up until I heard a gunshot-like crack rip through the kitchen. That’s when I looked over my shoulder and saw a black shadow person’s silhouette, staring at me with bright white eyes. I bolted up the stairs to my bedroom and locked the door, then immediately began praying and wishing I’d had incense or sage or something to keep…whatever that thing had been…out of my room and away from me (I was a big believer in the supernatural as a teen).

A few hours later, I was called down by my mom, and she asked why there was a plank of wood on the floor. I looked, and sure enough, there was a sheet of wood on the kitchen floor.

The same bit of wood that had been in the middle of the counter, leftover from her and her ex building a bird cage. That I didn’t touch.

Many bricks were shat.”
— HesDeadJim_, A collection of creepy stories from the internet
Tagged: creepy, creepy stories, Scary Sentences
“You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Moving Forward, surviving, Survival
“Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Possession, poison, dangerous
“You must hurt or be hurt.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Hurting, Pain, Suffering
“The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Tagged: Friends, Alone, Pity
“This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Hatred, Destruction, Healing
“Love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“Everyone you trust, everyone you think you can count on, will eventually disappoint you.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Trust, Disappointment, Friendship
“That's when you really lose people, you know. When the pain passes.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Loss, Pain, Suffering, Goodbyes
“When you get bit by a snake, you have to suck out all the poison, that’s what I had to do, suck all the poison out of my life.”
— Cady Heron, Mean Girls
Tagged: Movie Quotes, Mean Girls Quotes
“That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Best Friends, Friendship, Protection
“I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Aging, Happiness, Faking it, Panic
“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Helping, humanity, screwed over
“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Power, Love, Boyfriend, Dating
“Halloween is the one night a year when girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”
— Cady Heron, Mean Girls
Tagged: Mean Girls Quotes, Movie Quotes
“I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Love, Knowledge, Intimacy
“I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Closeness, Intimacy, Healing
“I sleep in a one bedroom apartment and every night I close my door because I don’t have windows in my room and love the pitch dark. So I drift off and snooze for how ever long and then start to stir. I casually wake up as my eyes adjust to the darkness. I check my phone and lay it back down to sleep more.

As I’m laying there, I open my eyes and see a face, it’s in the doorway of my, now cracked open, bedroom door. It’s at the height of a child. It took me a minute to really gather what i was looking at, I could only make out the roundness of the face little black beady eyes, lips very shadowdy but still visible. It just kept sort of swaying ever so slightly like it was trying to spy on me. And I just looked at it and, being really exhausted, I just fell asleep. I remember thinking, ‘fuck it, I don’t care what that is, I’m fucking tired,’ and that was it.

I then woke up, it was morning. I gradually woke up stretched big, looked at my phone, then remembered the creepy thing from just a few hours ago, I thought ‘interesting, must have been sleep paralysis, that’s never happened before, I feel I handled that well.’ I then sat up and looked straight at my door, which was now slightly opened 7 inches. I never got up during the night, I remember that.

I’ve told people this story and they just say either ‘yea right’ or ‘that’s creepy’ it was a weird situation. I can easily attribute the face to maybe still being sort of asleep but the door slightly being ajar, that’s something I can’t put my finger on.”
— Milo_theHutt, A collection of creepy stories from the internet
Tagged: creepy, creepy stories, Scary Sentences
“You can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Being Loved, affection
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people--to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: Confusion, Misunderstanding, cause and effect
“The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Tagged: Freedom, Independent, Alone
“This past week, I was sleeping at my boyfriend’s dads house with his dog and I woke up because I felt something stroking my feet. I looked at the end of the bed and some shadowy figure was there. When I saw it, it turned and walked out of the room. The whole time the dog was asleep and my boyfriend was in the other room.”
— Anonymous, A collection of creepy stories from the internet
Tagged: creepy, creepy stories, Scary Sentences
“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.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Words, Language, Fear, Joy
“I was sitting in the room near the backyard, sliding glass door in front of me. I am on my laptop when I hear a tapping on the sliding glass door… I look up to see a hand pulling away from the door.

This hand was a dark grey-purple, and it’s fingers were about as long as my entire hand was. When I got up to go see wtf was going on… it was entirely gone.

Some background information on me: I wasn’t sleep deprived, I hadn’t drank anything, I have never smoked (or done any sort of illegal drugs), and I hadn’t watched any TV shows or movies with aliens in them.

Only explanation I can think of is ‘oh fuck, it was an alien.’”
— Anonymous, A collection of creepy stories from the internet
Tagged: creepy, creepy stories, Scary Sentences

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