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Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.

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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
Mice
Flying
Fine

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This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.
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I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.
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Old words words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die
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Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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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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And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
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There are some losses we never get over.
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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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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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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.
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It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.
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