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who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.
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I used to have only one name it used to mean something.
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I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
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Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
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Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
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The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.
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It's never right to give up on someone.
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Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.
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I miss something I never even had.
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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.
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What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
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Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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My sisters were in that van.
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