Lauren Oliver, Requiem

"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."

"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."

"Live free or die."

"We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it."

"Live free or die."

"And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return."

"Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it. But we have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing."

"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."