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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'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short
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As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.
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Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner the blade the last-minute reprieve the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.
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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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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University
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Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
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You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.
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A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.
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I guess there are some things you never get used to.
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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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Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
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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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Sarah: Not bad. You look almost human. Lena: Thanks. Sarah: I said almost. Lena: Well, then, almost thanks.
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Something must die so that others can live.
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i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.
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The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.
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We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.
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