Delirium — Vocabulary
Lauren Oliver
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On the morning of my evaluation it is the smell that wakes me up.†p.5.4alternate pages91 more

Here is a secret about my family: My sister contracted the deliria a several months before her scheduled procedure.p.173.8alternate pages4 more

His face contracts slightly, a tiny shift I can barely make out in the dark, but in that second he looks so still and sad it almost takes my breath away, like he's a statue, or a different person.p.141.7alternate pages4 more

The moon sits almost directly above us, streaming light into the trailer and crowning everything in silver.†p.292.6alternate pages23 more

He doesn't answer me directly.†p.295.9alternate pages23 more

Just then Mrs. Johanson, the athletic director, comes around the bank of lockers, swinging her whistle around one finger.†p.49.6alternate pages23 more

I hope Carol is listening, and takes this as a sign that I've resigned myself to the change in plans.p.415.8alternate pages1 more

All the cows were lined up, packed in their stalls, staring at us mutely as we walked by, with that same look in their eyes, fear and resignation and something else.p.108.2alternate pages1 more

Everything looks strange and grotesque and distorted, certain streets glittering with glass from smashed windows, the smell of burning in the air.†p.210.1alternate pages4 more

For a second he seems to waver, and I'm sure he's going to let me go, but then he passes my ID to another regulator.†p.81.4alternate pages4 more

One night after she'd come to sleep in my bed I woke up in the very early morning, the nighttime shadows ebbing off our walls.†p.41.2alternate pages4 more

That is the single idea in my mind, the one that has supplanted the possibility of all other rational thought.†p.341.8alternate pages4 more

And if there were people who died on the operating table, they died for a good cause, and no one can lament them.... —From "The Miracle Years: The Early Science of the Cure," A Brief History of the United States of America, by E. D. Thompson, p. 87†p.198.6alternate pages3 more

It's made of super-sheer plastic, and as I wrap it around my body, securing it at the waist with a knot, I'm fully aware that you can still see pretty much everything including the outline of my underwear—through its fabric.p.29.1alternate pages1 more

But the idea is there, looming up solid and unavoidable, a sheer rock face: I could have stopped it.p.156.6alternate pages1 more

—Ancient saying, provenance unknown, listed in the Comprehensive Compilation of Dangerous Words and Ideas, www.ccdwi.gov.org†p.302.1alternate pages2 more

I rank my choices arbitrarily, inserting numbers next to names: Phinneas Jonston (1), Chris McDonnell (2), Brian Scharff (3), Edward Wung (4).†p.182.2alternate pages1 more

Normally patients are anesthetized during the procedure and don't feel a thing, but my aunt had once let slip that during my mother's third procedure they had refused to sedate her, thinking that the anesthesia might be interfering with her brain's response to the cure.†p.32.5alternate pages2 more

It creeps through the streets of Portland, festers in the Dumpsters, makes the city smell like a giant armpit.†p.178.6alternate pages2 more

It's supposed to be a story about guilt and the dangers of civil disobedience, but when I first read it I thought it seemed kind of lame and melodramatic.†p.117.3alternate pages1 more