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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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The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.
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Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.
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That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.
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Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.
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I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.
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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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That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.
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I'll find you, he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. I won't let you go again
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It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
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Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
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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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For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here I should never have asked him to cross.
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That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.
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For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.
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I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.
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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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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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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
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But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them―the best ones―are doors.
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So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
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