37 pages 1 hour read

Lancali

I Fell in Love with Hope

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

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Important Quotes

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“The snow turns into a storm. I try to gather the dancing flickers in my hand and send them back to their sky.”


(Prologue, Page 7)

Sam, the narrator, uses snow as a symbol for the stars. The stars serve as a metaphor for the imagined world he and his love live forever. When the stars fall and it snows, reality breaks through and their imagined life falls apart.

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“Disease is greedy. It takes pieces of you until you no longer recognize yourself, and Neo, C, and Sony don’t recognize themselves outside of this place anymore.”


(Chapter 1, Page 11)

Lancali personifies illness, giving it human-like characteristics. It becomes greedy, something humans feel, and steals from the characters until the disease becomes their entire identity.

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“Try walking away from someone who knows you so well they ruin you. You’ll find yourself wondering how you could ever love anyone else.”


(Chapter 1, Page 21)

Neo’s fictional novel mirrors the plotline of I Fell in Love with Hope. It foreshadows how Sam will wonder how he can love the new person who arrives in his life after grappling with the loss of Sam.