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I’ve always hated being looked at.

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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
Hated
Looked
Always

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They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.
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I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.
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Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.
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Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.
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That's all I want. Just you and me. Always.
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It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.
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I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.
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Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead? Do you think I was being stupid? Naive? Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me. I thought I would live forever too.
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I don't know whether these feelings - this thing growing inside of me - is something horrible and sick or the best thing that's ever happened to me. Either way, I can't stop it. I've lost control. And the truly sick thing is that despite everything, I'm glad.
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The first one, we’ll name Blue.
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Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
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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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A string of bright white buildinh, glistening like teeth over the slurping mouth of the ocean.
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There are some losses we never get over.
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