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It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Westchester County
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Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
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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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It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.
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When we get out of highschool we'll look back and know we did everything right, that we kissed the cutest boys and went to the best parties, got in just enough trouble, listened to our music too loud, smoked too many cigarettes, and drank too much and laughed too much and listened too little, or not al all.
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Music, I think, he makes me feel like music
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And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
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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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This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.
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He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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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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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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He looked at me like I was beautiful.
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Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.
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That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.
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I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
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