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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
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It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
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She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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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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She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.
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And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
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There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, Go.
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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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We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.
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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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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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So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.
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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 the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
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I figured it out eventually, she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. It's momentum. What? I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. Momentum, she repeats. You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have
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Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
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There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.
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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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