Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass. But the cure works differently for everybody; and it does not work perfectly for all."
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"This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass. But the cure works differently for everybody; and it does not work perfectly for all."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--"
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand."I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again."I don't trust myself to speak. Instead I nod, hoping that he understands me. He squeezes my hand."Go," he says."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"Take down the walls."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"I think of the quietness of Julianโs 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 donโt come."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"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
"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
"Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says.it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"They couldnโt have known that even this was a lieโthat we never really choose, not entirely. 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 havenโt chosen at all. But maybe happiness isnโt in the choosing. Maybe itโs in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"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
"Live free or die."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
"Who knows? Maybe theyโre 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
"And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return."
Lauren Oliver, Requiem
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