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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Everything
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Endings
Life
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This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.
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The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
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I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
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This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.
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Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
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Kent? I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. Yeah? Promise you'll stay here with me? I say. I promise, he whispers.
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People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.
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But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.
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Something must die so that others can live.
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i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
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