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

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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
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Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own.
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Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.
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Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
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All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.
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Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
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We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
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The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
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The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.
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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.
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Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.
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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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Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.
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I'll find you, he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. I won't let you go again
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.
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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.
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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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You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist
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