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I’ve always hated being looked at.
Lauren Oliver
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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
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We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
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This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.
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Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.
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People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.
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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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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 Wilds aren't safe anymore.
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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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Hope keeps you alive.
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No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.
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I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i dont just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop
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But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.
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But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.
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Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
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He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
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Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.
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A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.
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That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.
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