Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.
Lauren OliverAmor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.
Lauren OliverThis is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything elseโevery single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kissโhas meant nothing.
Lauren OliverWeโll go.โ Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. โWeโll fight.
Lauren OliverThe first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.
Lauren Oliver