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i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.
Lauren Oliver
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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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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 can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
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that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.
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It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.
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That's the thing about faith. It works.
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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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Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.
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And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me
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anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.
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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.
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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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The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.
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The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark but you are supposed to go through them.
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