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It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Things
Moment
Curls
Life
Moments
Wait
Like
Happens
Works
Back
Taking
Come
Strange
Feel
Changed
Feels
Forever
Curl
Something
Waiting
Delirium

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