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Lauren Oliver, Requiem Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.



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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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That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.



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