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#1

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: choices, delirium, freedom, love

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#2

“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: alex, delirium, julian, lauren-oliver, lena, requiem

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#3

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: happiness, pretending

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#4

“This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: past

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#5

“Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

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#6

“You don't know shit about me, I don't know shit about you. You don't even know shit about you.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

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#7

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: freedom, love, relationships, rules

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#8

“Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: choice, freedom, leaving

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#9

“People do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.”
― Lauren Oliver, Alex

tags: alex-s-pov

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#10

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: books

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#11

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland

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#12

“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: choice, punishment

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#13

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

tags: bad, good, life

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#14

“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: humor, jace-wayland, the-mortal-instruments, tmi

2786 likes

#15

“This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt you. It's why I give mine away in pieces, even to Cassia.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

tags: ky

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#16

“We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

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#17

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: will-herondale

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#18

“If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

tags: tessa-gray, theresa-gray

4536 likes

#19

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: direction, lauren-oliver, requiem, time

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#20

“An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: revenge

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#21

“Don't you get that yet? You don't know shit about me, I don't know shit about you. You don't even know shit about you.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

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#22

“Good-byes are like this. You can’t always mark them well at the moment of separation—no matter how deep they cut. (Ky Markham)”
― Ally Condie, Crossed

tags: crossed, ky-markham

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#23

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

tags: hope

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#24

“If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

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#25

“I realize now how much courage it takes to choose the life you want, whatever that might be.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

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#26

“There is satisfaction in knowing that something good and right and true was part of you. That you had the blessing, gift, good fortune, perfect luck, to know someone like this, to pass through fire and water and stone and sky together and emerge, all of you, strong enough to hold on, strong enough to let go. (Cassia)”
― Ally Condie, Reached

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#27

“Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

tags: ky, quote, reached

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#28

“When you can’t cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

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#29

“For a moment, I’m a part of it all. Then I’m just apart.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

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#30

“It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

tags: city-of-fallen-angels, humor, jace-lightwood, sarcasm

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