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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.

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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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Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.
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He was still in love with you, anyway.
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Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.
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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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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.
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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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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.
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No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.
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Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
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If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
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The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.
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Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.
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This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
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And we did, and it wasn’t bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.” I’m gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown I’m reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar.
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That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.
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When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. So I guess we saved each other.
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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds they repair the broken skin.
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But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
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I just want to be normal, like everybody else. Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
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