Lauren Oliver - Requiem (2013)

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I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

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No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.

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I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

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And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

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I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

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This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.

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This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.

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Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?

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And even if she isn't—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn't even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn't have the stomach for it.

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If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.

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There were days I asked for it-prayed for it when I went to sleep. The belief that I would see you again, that I could find you-the hope for it-was the only thing that kept me going.

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I'm not the Hana everyone told me I would be after my cure.

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People themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine.

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I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don't just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop

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I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

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Over the past week, I've accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.

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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.

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I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it.

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Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. "You and me". "I promise". I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: "Don't believe her.

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It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

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We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

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I'm with Julian, I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.

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And we did, and it wasn't bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me. I'm gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown; I'm reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar.

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He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.

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