User:Nick1372/Delirium

''This article is just a draft. It will be moved to the main namespace when it is complete. Thank you,'' Nick1372 (talk) 21:30, 19 October 2013 (UTC) Delirium is a young adult science fiction novel by Lauren Oliver.

Delirium takes place in a dystopian society where love has been identified as a disease. Every member of the society is given the "cure" when they reach the age of eighteen. The book is narrated by Lena Haloway, a teenage girl who is eager to get her treatment.

Chapter 1

 * I don't like to think that I'm still walking around with the disease running through my blood. Sometimes I swear I can feel it writhing in my veins like something spoiled, like sour milk. It makes me feel dirty. It reminds me of children throwing tantrums. It reminds me of resistance, of diseased girls dragging their nails on the pavement, tearing out their hair, their mouths dripping spit.
 * p. 5
 * After the procedure I will be happy and safe forever. That's what everybody says, the scientists and my sister and Aunt Carol. I will have the procedure and then I'll be paired with a boy the evaluators choose for me. In a few years, we'll get married.
 * p. 5
 * Recently I've started having dreams about my wedding. In them I'm standing under a white canopy with flowers in my hair. I'm holding hands with someone, but whenever I turn to look at him his face blurs, and I can't make out any features. But his hands are cool and dry, and my heart is beating steadily in my chest—and in my dream I know it will always beat out that same rhythm, not skip or jump or swirl or go faster, just womp, womp, womp, until I'm dead.
 * p. 5–6

Chapter 2

 * Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.
 * p. 10
 * Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors.
 * p. 12

Chapter 3

 * "You can't be really happy unless you're unhappy sometimes."
 * p. 21, spoken by Hana