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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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Maybe
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It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
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The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.
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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.
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Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.
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But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.
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Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. You and me. I promise. I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: Don't believe her.
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People need other people to feel things for them, she said. It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
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Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
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You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.
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Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.
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Love: It will kill you and save you, both
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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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And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
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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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My first kiss. A new kind of kiss, like the new kind of music still playing, softly, in the distance - wild and arrhythmic, desperate. Passionate.
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We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.
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Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
Lauren Oliver