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“Take down the walls.”
“Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned.”
“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
“Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.”
“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”
“An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.”
“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.”
“Who knows? Maybe theyre 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...”
“We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.”
“They couldnt have known that even this was a liethat 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, a...”
“Live free or die.”
“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.”
“I think of the quietness of Julians 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 dont come.”
“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 p...”
“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.”
“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. Fre...”
“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...”
“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--”
“This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.”
“You do not know what will happen if you take down the walls; you cannot see through to the other side, don't know whether it will bring freedom or ruin, resolution or chaos. It might be paradise or...”
“People are stubborn and stupid. They're irrational. they're destructive. that's the point, isn't it? That's the whole reason for the cure. People will no longer destroy their own lives. They won't ...”
“She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.”
“Please understand. Please forgive me.I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.Don't hate me.I still love you.”
“Is it true? I ask him.Is what true? His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.That you still love me, I say, breathless. I need to know.Alex nods. He reaches out...”
