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You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.

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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
Different
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.
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Po flickered. Thank you? it repeated. What is that? Liesl thought. It means, You were wonderful, she said. It means, I couldn't have done it without you.
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I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.
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For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here I should never have asked him to cross.
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Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.
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Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
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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 love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
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That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.
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That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in America—probably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
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The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.
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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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