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It's the way he says my name: like music.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
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And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
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Nobody ever said life was fair.
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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds they repair the broken skin.
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I guess there are some things you never get used to.
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And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
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I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
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I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
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I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now. Don't worry, Will said. We'll figure something out. Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.
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I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
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This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.
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The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.
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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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His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
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What glitters may not be gold and even wolves may smile and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
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I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.
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