Love Quotes in Delirium

This is Lena's verdict on love. Don't you think this girl is a little too wrapped up in this romantic love business? What about other kinds of love—love between family, friends, strangers, etc.—that really seem to make the modern world go 'round?

This is a lie Lena tells to deceive her evaluators into giving her a high rating, but it's not a very good one. After all, no one is supposed to love anyone or anything in this society. To us, that's a red flag. What kind of person or government would say that parents shouldn't even love their own kids?

This is one of the last things Hana says to Lena before their first evaluations. You can't have anything without its opposite, when you think about it. Light and dark. Love and hate… which is why there's so little overt conflict in Delirium's Portland.

What could this drop be that Lena is waiting for? A fall? To fall... in... love?

We're not sure what Lena is foreshadowing here—maybe some future societal rebellion by the people beyond the fence—but it also sounds like many people's stories of the first time they met. Lena and Alex's relationship started with a dance. Well, it really started with Alex staring at Lena while she almost got trampled by cows. But that's not as romantic of a first date story.

Yep, Lena's falling for Alex. And floating along atop a blissful, bubbly surf is a good way of describing her young romance. If falling in love felt like lying on top of a garbage heap, people probably wouldn't be so jazzed about it. Although, Alex and Lena did first talk to each other near some toxic waste. Hm...

Lena's caught the love bug, and she doesn't care. This is definitely the Romeo and Juliet kind of love, with a devil-may-care attitude toward any consequences.

Love lifts them up where they belong. ‎ It's amazing how Lena had no interest in boys at the beginning of the book, but once she's with Alex, she doesn't want anything else from life. Would she be this attached toward any boy who was her first love? Or is there really something special about Alex?

Love gets Lena closer to God, if there is one. Her beliefs on love may be clear, but her beliefs in a higher power are not. Maybe love is her higher power.

Here, Lena seems to be saying that nothing exists without its opposite. So if you create a world without love, then that world will be a peaceful one. The only thing is, Delirium seems to suggest, you can't actually create a world that's completely free of love. People need each other, people hate being told what they can and can't feel, and they will rebel. Love will find a way.