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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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Black is too morbid red will set them on edge pink is too juvenile orange is freakish
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And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.
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I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.
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That’s just the kind of thing that kids do to each other. It’s no big deal. There’s always going to be a person laughing and somebody getting laughed at. It happens every day, in every school, in every town in America—probably in the world, for all I know. The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
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only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.
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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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This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
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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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Every choice is limited. That's life.
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The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.
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Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
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I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
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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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Funny how certain things stay with you.
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Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short
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I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.
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It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.
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