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Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.
After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to... read more
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Summary edit
Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight. After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends to the Wilds.... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Lena Haloway: Member of the Resistance torn between her two loves.
- Alex Sheathes: Lena's first love, revealed to have survived multiple gunshot wounds and lengthy incarceration.
- Julian Fineman: Lena's second love. Left 'Zombieland' for Lena to be with the Invalids. Father was head of the DFA.
- Hana Tate: Lena's former best friend, fiancee of Fred Hargrove.
- Fred Hargrove: New mayor of Portland.
- Raven: Tough Resistance leader.
- Tack: Another taciturn member of the Resistance. Raven's boyfriend.
- Pippa: aka Twiggy. Member of the Resistance. Raven's old friend.
- Lu: Resistance member.
- Dani: Invalid.
- Gordo: Invalid.
- Pike: Invalid. Often fights with Tack.
- Bram: Invalid.
- Hunter: Resistance member.
- Evelyn Tate: Hana's undemonstrative mother.
- Anne Killegan: Seamstress making Hana's wedding dress.
- Tony: Tates' bodyguard.
- Rick: Tony's brother.
- Jenny Tiddle: Lena's cousin.
- Grace Tiddle: Another of Lena's cousins. Doesn't talk much.
- Mrs. Hargrove: Fred's mother.
- Coral: Pretty girl rescued by Lena's group.
- Mr. Roth: Tates' neighbor. Comes over to watch TV because he can't afford the electricity.
- Willow Marks: An old classmate of Hana's, reduced to hiding in the Highlands after an early Cure.
- Steven Hilt: Hana's old boyfriend, now quite boring.
- Celia Briggs: Steve's pair.
- Cassandra "Cassie" Melanea O'Donnell: Fred's first wife.
- Summer: Resistance member.
- Tanya Bourne: Security Assistant at the Center for Organization, Research, and Education.
- Eleanor Latterly: Suspicious Hargrove servant.
- Debbie Sayer: Mrs. Tate's hairdresser.
- Annabel Haloway: Lena's mother. Spent years trapped in the Crypts. Now a valued Resistance member known as Bee.
- Cap: Resistance member.
- Max: Resistance member.
- Jan: Crypts nurse.
- Beast: Resistance member. Pippa's second-in-command.
- Colin: Resistance member.
Quotes edit
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“Perfection is a promise and a reassurance that we are not wrong.”
Hana -
“It's the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos.”
Hana -
“Lena's name is worse than a curse word in our family.”
Hana -
“There is no privacy in the Wilds, and there can be no modesty, either.”
Lena -
“Stop saying my name. You don't know me anymore.”
Alex -
“You must hurt or be hurt.”
Lena -
“The resistance exists. It may even be growing. An epidemic.”
Hana -
“I was worried I'd gotten a defective one.”
Fred Hargrove -
“There are more of us than you think.”
From a brochure in Hana's yard -
“Hana Tate...They got you, too.”
Willow Marks -
“We need a zero-tolerance policy.”
Fred Hargrove -
“Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are easily lost.”
Lena -
“God forgive me for I have sinned.”
Hana -
“An open society is a healthy society; transparency is necessary to trust.”
From the Book of Shhh -
“That's what they are, all those Invalids: wild-eyed, pale-bellied fishes rolling up toward the sun, as good as dead.”
Hana -
“We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered.”
Lena -
“There is more truth in Zombieland than I wanted to believe.”
Lena -
“This is what we do: We fight for what matters to us.”
Bee -
“...You can't have love, not fully, unless you are loved, in return.”
Lena -
“We wanted freedom to love, and, instead, we have been turned into fighters, savages.”
Lena -
“I will be reborn: blank, clean, featureless, like the world after a blizzard.”
Hana -
“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen.”
Hana -
“This is what we are made for: promises, pledges, and sworn oaths of obedience.”
Hana -
“A path and a road for everyone...and for some, a path straight into the ground...”
Lena -
“The cure is about control. It's about structure. Servitude is called safety.”
Lena -
“This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.”
Lena -
“He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.”
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First Sentence edit
I've started dreaming of Portland again.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 7 in Delirium Trilogy. (standard series)
Preceded by Pandemonium.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lauren Oliver (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 5, 2013
ISBN: 978-0062014535
Page Count: 400
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 5, 2013
ISBN: 978-0062014535
Page Count: 400
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