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It's never right to give up on someone.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
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Right
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There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.
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To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
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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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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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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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I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
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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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And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
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Give me time For you, always.
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You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.
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I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.
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Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
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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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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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It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
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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 miss something I never even had.
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None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.
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