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Fever
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Lauren DeStefano45,784 ratings, 3.78 average rating, 3,371 reviews
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“Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”
― Fever
― Fever
“It's best to let her go," he says.
No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.”
― Fever
No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.”
― Fever
“He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.”
― Fever
― Fever
“But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.”
― Fever
― Fever
“I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.”
― Fever
― Fever
“I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.”
― Fever
― Fever
“Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.”
― Fever
― Fever
“Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.”
― Fever
― Fever
“I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”
― Fever
― Fever
“Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other.”
― Fever
― Fever
“I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.”
― Fever
― Fever
“There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.”
― Fever
― Fever
“And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers?
When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins?
Maybe he already is.”
― Fever
When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins?
Maybe he already is.”
― Fever
“I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.”
― Fever
― Fever
“It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.”
― Fever
― Fever
“Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.”
― Fever
― Fever
“Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.”
― Fever
― Fever
“Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.”
― Fever
― Fever
“I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum."
"What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes.
"Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.”
― Fever
"What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes.
"Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.”
― Fever
