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Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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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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The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.
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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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People need other people to feel things for them, she said. It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
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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'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
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Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.
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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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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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And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
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You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
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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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No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.
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And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
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Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
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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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The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.
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His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
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Hope keeps you alive.
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Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
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