Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.


Lauren Oliver

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I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly.
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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I turned.
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As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
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We must come out as a single front against the greedy bourgeoisie.
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She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
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You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
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As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
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Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER
Moments.

All gathering towards this one.
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I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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a butterf...
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as fa...
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The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you w...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI
While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.
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He carried with him the disease— amor deliria ...
LAUREN OLIVER
It’s hard not to be afraid while I’m still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn’t touched m...
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Things weren’t always as good as they are now. In school we learned that in the old days, the dark...
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For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who yo...
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That’s a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you wo...
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She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why ...
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I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to ...
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Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents...
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Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get ...
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His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
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We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we wan...
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Nothing has ever been so painful or delicious as being so close to him and being unable to do anythi...
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His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, mo...
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I know the rules. I've been living here longer than you have."
He cracks a smile then. He nudge...
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They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, ove...
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....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other....
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This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second ...
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I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse l...
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Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't re...
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I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making m...
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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to beco...
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Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease...
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How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
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My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some flop...
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i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and...
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I want to help you,' I say to Juliet, though I know that I can't make her understand, not like this....
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand o...
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Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long...
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So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?'

Kent does a little bow. 'You ...
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I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely...
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That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.
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That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of...
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I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in t...
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And I guess that's when it starts to hit me: the whole point is, you do what you can.
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The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler,...
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The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I t...
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No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world...
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For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back,
easy and smiling aga...
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The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one seco...
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What does it feel like to be infected?"
"I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't...
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I’m used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tu...
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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
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I wonder what Lena is doing now. I always wonder what Lena is doing. Rachel, too: both my girls, my ...
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The dagger pin is all I have left. It is comfort and pain, both, because it reminds me of all I’ve...
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This is how Tack and Raven work: It’s their private language of push and return, argument and conc...
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Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like f...
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