How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well. (1.1)
Lena is describing the deliria here, but she could be describing any sort of mental illness that sometimes gives people feelings of extreme joy and extreme despair. Is that what love is: a mental illness?
Quote #2
People back then named other diseases—stress, heart disease, anxiety, depression, hypertension, insomnia, bipolar disorder—never realizing that these were, in fact, only symptoms that in the majority of cases could be traced back to the effects of amor deliria nervosa. (1.7)
Boy, they've managed to simplify a lot of complicated diseases in Lena's world. Does their oversimplification have any validity to it, or is this just a way to scare people into being afraid of love?