Lauren DeStefano - Fever (2012)

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There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

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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.

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Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.

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Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

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But there's no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

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There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

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I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.

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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.

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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

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Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

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When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

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I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

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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.

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The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.

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Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

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It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

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Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

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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.

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Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

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