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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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I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
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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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I guess there are some things you never get used to.
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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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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.
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And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
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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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Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
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I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.
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Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
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My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.
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Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
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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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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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We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.
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There are more of us than you think.
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I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now. Don't worry, Will said. We'll figure something out. Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.
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