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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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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
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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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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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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There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
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He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.
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We writers are resilient souls.
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You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.
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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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who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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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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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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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've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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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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What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
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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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Tell freedom I said hello.
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I miss something I never even had.
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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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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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