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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
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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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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.
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Tell freedom I said hello.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other. Pg 225
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls. There are always walls. I say.
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You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
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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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who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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I used to have only one name it used to mean something.
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We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.
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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?
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Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
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