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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
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I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
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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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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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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
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I think of Grace and feel a sharp pain in my chest.
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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I just want to be normal, like everybody else. Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
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that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.
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