it seemed a lifetime ago i'd lain in bed with Lena and felt her breath tickling my chin and held her while she slept, felt her heart beating through her skin to mine. it was a lifetime ago. everything was different.
you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.
only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.
that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.
I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.
I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.
That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.
I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything.
No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.
"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."
I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.
I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again
I screamed until my voice dried up in my throat. We all did. All of us in Ward Six, all of us forgotten, left to rot.
There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.
That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.
That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in America—probably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away."A cute idiot," Ally corrects me."That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.
I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
Waste today, want tomorrow.
Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium
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