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.