{"quotes":[{"text":"It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me.He never loved me.It was all a lie.'The old Lena is dead.' I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone.You must hurt or be hurt.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","lena","lies","love","requiem"],"id":18616,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","love","romance"],"id":133237,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","romance"],"id":158649,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"The opening notes of a song began, some plucking of guitar strings. I knew the melody. It was Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved.” As pop songs went, it was pretty damn good, a bit of a favorite of mine.","author":"Kylie Scott","tags":["book","jimmyferris","kylie-scott","lead","lena","marron5","playlist"],"id":160916,"author_id":"Kylie+Scott"},{"text":"Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?'I don't know any other way.'Let me show you.'And then we're kissing. Or at least, I think we're kissing—I've only seen it done a couple of times, quick closed-mouth pecks at weddings or on formal occasions. But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: this is like music or dancing but better than both.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","romance"],"id":163653,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have.'He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. 'Hardly.'Born and raised. You're a transplant.' I nudge him again, a little harder, and he laughs and tries to catch hold of my arm. I squirm away, giggling, and he stretches out to tickle my stomach. 'Country bumpkin!' I squeal, as he grabs out and wrestles me back onto the blanket, laughing.'City slicker,' he says, rolling over on top of me, and then kisses me. Everything dissolves: heat, explosions of color, floating.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","love","romance"],"id":204728,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"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.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","beautiful","lena"],"id":217206,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex","delirium","lauren-oliver","lena","romance"],"id":226192,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"She had a destiny, and it was wonderful, every girl’s dream. Like Sleeping Beauty, awoken from a deep sleep by a charming vampire, Lena would have her very own fairy tale.","author":"Amber Belldene","tags":["blood-vine-series","destiny","lena","unrequited-love","vampires"],"id":261864,"author_id":"Amber+Belldene"},{"text":"Laws of physicslaws of loveof time and spaceand the (in)between place(in)between you and meand where we arelost and lookinglooking and lost.","author":"Kami Garcia","tags":["ethan","lena","love","poem"],"id":271505,"author_id":"Kami+Garcia"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}