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Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.
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His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
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I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.
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The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast... He shakes his head. Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.
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I want to know. His words are a whisper, barely audible. I want to know with you.
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Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
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Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
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I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.
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....love and desire enjoy a symbiotic relationship, meaning that one cannot exist without the other. Desire is an enemy to contentment desire is illness, a feverish brain. Who can be considered healthy who wants? The very word want suggests a lack, an impoverishment, and that is what desire is: an impoverishment of the brain, a flaw, a mistake.
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I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.
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That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
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They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.
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It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.
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For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.
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And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me
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But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?
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i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.
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