Delirium (Delirium, #1)

by Lauren Oliver

You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

Many people, for example, possess ideals of tolerance or generosity that, when tested, they are unable to maintain.

Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision not to engage.