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Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

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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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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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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Things will get worse before they get better.
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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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Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.
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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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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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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
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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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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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I lost everyone I loved, I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, The day I met you.
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There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
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I never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
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I used to have only one name it used to mean something.
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He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.
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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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You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.
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