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There are more of us than you think.

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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
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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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Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.
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You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.
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We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.
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Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
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I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients
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Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.
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But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.
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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.
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Something must die so that others can live.
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The Wilds aren't safe anymore.
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I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.
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Live free or die.
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That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.
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They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.
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Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.
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If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
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I'm not scared, if that's what you're wondering. The moment of death is full of sound and warmth and light shooting away, arcing up and up and up, and if singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing... The rest you have to find out for yourself.
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