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I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

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Giving Up, Self, People

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That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.

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Promise, Tears, Skins

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.129, Hachette UK

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I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it.

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Beautiful, Mean, Eye

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Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

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Together, Good Things, Thread

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You can't tell me what to feel

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Pandemonium, Feels

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It is a beautiful world for the people who get to play the fist.

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Beautiful, Play, People

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But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps, at the edge of a broken city, just beyond a towering city dump; and our arrival-hungry, and half-frozen, to a place of food and water and walls that keep out the brutal winds. This, for us, is heaven.

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Wall, Mean, Past

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Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

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Mistake, Strange

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I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of our...classes...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. Now I get it, though. Poe must have snuck out a lot when he was young.

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Heart, Class, Guilt

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But now I give in, let the anger surge. I'm sick of people acting like this world, this other world is the normal one, while I'm the freak. It's not fair; like all the rules have suddenly changed and somebody forgot to tell me.

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Other Worlds, People, Giving

Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.67, Harper Collins

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For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

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Choices, Done, Firsts

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It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.

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Fall, Mean, Darkness

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It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

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Taken, Care, Chance

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I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.

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Sadness, Who I Am, People

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He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.

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Growing Up, Growing, Stuck

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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

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World, Way, Blind

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.410, Hachette UK

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

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Fire, Flames, Two

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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.

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Kissing, Hands, Trying

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The walls are covered -crammed- with writing. No. Not writing. They are covered with a single four-letter word that has been inscribed over and over, on every available surface. Love.

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Wall, Writing, Four

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Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies.

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Doors, Body, Crowds

Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.287, Hachette UK

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I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

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Dream, Stars, Thinking

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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

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Warrior, People, World

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The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced onto and out of my lips before I could think about it, or stop it. The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.

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Thinking, World, Way

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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.

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Dancing, Alex Sheathes

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

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That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

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Law, Made, Frightening

Lauren Oliver (2012). “Annabel: A Delirium Short Story”, p.22, Hachette UK

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