Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver... - Lauren Oliver, Delirium
"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
"Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie."
"Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?""I don't know any other way.""Let me show you."And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. 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."
"I know that the whole point—the only point—is tofind the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse tolet them go."
"I love you. Remember. They cannot take it"
"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."
"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side."