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This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.

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Glasses

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.77, Hachette UK

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Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

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Liars, Lying, Telling The Truth

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But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.

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Destiny, Forever, World

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.84, Hachette UK

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That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

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Fall, Choices, Easy

Lauren Oliver (2016). “Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven and Alex”, p.84, Hachette UK

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I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.

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Love You, Remember, Someday

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Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

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Perfection, Promise, Reassurance

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.9, Harper Collins

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With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.

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Expectations, Language, Cures

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.21, Harper Collins

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That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but it’s not really true. It’s like you and your body are two separate things, like your body is betraying you, chugging on, idiotic and animal, craving water and sandwiches and bathroom breaks while your world falls apart.

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Fall, Animal, Thinking

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For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

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Sorry, Fighting, Years

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.

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Crazy, Thinking, People

Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.98, Hachette UK

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It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

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Hurt, Wall, Lying

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, Harper Collins

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Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.

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Alex, Done, Buried

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.15, Harper Collins

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The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

Lauren Oliver

Forgive Me, Forgiving, Stories

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Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.

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Ribs, Bullets, Time Heals

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anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.

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Sky, Ifs, Anything Is Possible

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people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.

Lauren Oliver

People, Sometimes, Reason

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Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.

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Borders, Adjusting, Boundaries

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It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

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Past, Layers, Dirt

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it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

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Grief, Past, Resistance

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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They couldn’t have known that even this was a lie—that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven’t chosen at all. But maybe happiness isn’t in the choosing. Maybe it’s in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

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Lying, Choices, Fiction

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The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.

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Memories, Snapshots, Seems

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.43, Hachette UK

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But it's not about knowing. It is simply about going forward.

Lauren Oliver

Knowing

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But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.

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Fire, Matter, Tiny

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...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

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Pain, Past, Glasses

Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.128, Hachette UK

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Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

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Lying, Quiet, Graves

Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.629, Hachette UK

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