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Kent? I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. Yeah? Promise you'll stay here with me? I say. I promise, he whispers.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Promise
Taking
Kent
Stay
Whispers
Inside
Fog
Brain
Mouth
Forever
Rise
Voice
Mouths
Seems
Yeah

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