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Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Fear
Love
Lauren
Oliver
Mom
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His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
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Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.
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Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
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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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But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.
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When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. So I guess we saved each other.
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I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend to have time to waste.
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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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people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.
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I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older
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It's like there's a filter set up in my brain, except instead of making things better, it twists everything around so what comes out of my mouth is totally wrong, totally different from what I was thinking.
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