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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
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Contemporary
Paint
Plausibly
Present
Dystopian
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Paints
Society
Twist
Future
Twists
Happens
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Classic

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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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You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.
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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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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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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 want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
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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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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
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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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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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who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.
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She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.
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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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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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