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“Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty. What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I'm clawing at something that doesn't want me. And to say goodbye is like severing a part of me that I can't easily replace.”
― Krista Ritchie, Amour Amour

“If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms. My letters set me free.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I am Tessa Gray,” she said in a low, clear voice. “And I believe in the importance of stories.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Whitechapel Fiend

“That's the thing about faith. It works.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and
when you don’t.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“When left to their own devices, people lie and keep secrets and change and disappear, some behind a different face or personality, some behind a dense early morning fog, beyond a cliff.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Most things, even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings in something small.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you—sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“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.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I said that without love, there could also be no hate: without hate, no violence. Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I know that life isn’t life if you just float through it.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Love: It will kill you and save you, both.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Amazing, how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.”
― Lauren Oliver, Annabel

“That’s what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable—and all the time we’re being carved, and shaped, and whittled away.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, Raven, and Alex

“And far more dangerous than greed or lust or envy or any of those things—or anything—was love.”
― Rick Yancey, The Infinite Sea

“I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.”
― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The first thing you learn is how to be alone. You learn, or suffer. It is an easy lesson. You suffer more when people are around. People make you feel alone. And loneliness is a quiet wound.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, X-23, Vol. 1: The Killing Dream