Lauren Oliver quote: "I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."<br /> "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out."<br /> Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug."

Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand t...
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And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some vall...
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You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens ...
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Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's wi...
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Sometimes I'm afraid to go to sleep because of what I'm leaving behind.
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The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
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With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the c...
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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The secret is,” I say, whispering right into his ear, “that yours was the best kiss I’ve ever ...
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Mama, Mama, help me get home
I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own.
I found me a werewo...
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She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be e...
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Hana?" Lena says softly. "Are you okay?"
That single stupid question breaks me. All the metal f...
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I thought you were dead,” I say. “It almost killed me.”
“Did it?” His voice is neutra...
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I thought the Invalids were beasts; I thought they would rip me apart. But these people saved me, an...
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He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
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The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well
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Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an e...
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I came to find you last night," Lena says more quietly. "When I knew there was going to be a raid......
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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 t...
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His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
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I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making m...
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How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
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No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.
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It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn’t touched m...
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The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.
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I read once about a kind of fungus that grows in trees. The fungus begins to encroach on the systems...
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Waste today, want tomorrow...
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This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.
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We all need mantras, I guess - stories we tell ourselves to keep us going.
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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
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Love, the deadliest of all deadly things.
It kills you.
Alex.
When you have it.
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If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.
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There are some losses we never get over.
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For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back,
easy and smiling aga...
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What does it feel like to be infected?"
"I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't...
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I’m used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tu...
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But at the beginning of the night anything's possible.
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I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely...
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The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler,...
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Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?"
"I'm sure.
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It [death] isn't an infection, she said. She might be right. Then again, we've nested in the walls l...
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I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act ...
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I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are c...
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Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its f...
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You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to p...
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Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you kno...
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It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one...
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Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line l...
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There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the dar...
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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the brok...
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You can’t go home again” ─ isn’t necessarily that places change but people do.
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It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bo...
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He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.
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I shiver, thinking about how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-- to see one tiny part of t...
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So many things become beautiful when you really look.
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It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a do...
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Yeah, but our choices are limited. We choose from a list that they chose for us." She said.
"We...
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Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a li...
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I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds ...
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There's a metaphor in that somewhere—like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn't expe...
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Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?"
"I don't know any other way."...
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His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, mo...
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I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse l...
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Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't re...
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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to beco...
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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the ...
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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden.

He carried with him the disease— amor deliria ...
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Things weren’t always as good as they are now. In school we learned that in the old days, the dark...
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For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who yo...
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That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you wo...
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And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
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Take down the walls.
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This is the world we live in,
a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without
l...
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We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. "Don't you get it...
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We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for...
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Promise me we'll stay together, okay?" His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transpa...
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Something must die so
that others can live.
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I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.
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But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but ...
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I wonder what Lena is doing now. I always wonder what Lena is doing. Rachel, too: both my girls, my ...
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I want to help you,' I say to Juliet, though I know that I can't make her understand, not like this....
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand o...
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That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of...
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I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in t...
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And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.
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even as each minute seems to take an hour, each hour seems to fly by in a minute.
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no glove, no love
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I know that the whole point—the only point—is to
find the things that matter, and hold on t...
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Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of y...
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I love you. Remember. They cannot take it
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Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careles...
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Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?"

....
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I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is maki...
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And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out...
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Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
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Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption ...
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I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I ...
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I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him t...
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I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go ...
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Funny how things can stay the same forever and then change so quickly.
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I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to ...
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Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll<...
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I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out."
Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

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I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out."
Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.

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I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figure something out."
Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: we. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.