An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium

We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight.

And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what I feel in that moment, the baffling mixture of pain and pleasure and fear and joy, all running sharply through me at once.

And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me

That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.

I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.