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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.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
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Dystopian

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Don't you miss it? I say. Being free. He laughs.
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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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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 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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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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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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So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.
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Tell freedom I said hello.
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Cure is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
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My sisters were in that van.
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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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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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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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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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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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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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