"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."

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“I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me," I say quickly."I want to, though.”

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

“Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.”

“Who knows? Maybe they’re 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 the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”

“If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”

“Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.”

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