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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.
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There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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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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Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
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I never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
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Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
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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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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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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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Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.
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Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
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and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.
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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’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.
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The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
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Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
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