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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.
Lauren Oliver
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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.
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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
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