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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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You see, we didn't know.
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That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
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Promise me we'll stay together, okay? His eyes are once again the clear blue of a perfectly transparent pool. They are eyes to swim in, to float in, forever. You and me. I promise. I say. behind us the door creaks open, and I turn around, expecting Raven, just as a voice cuts through the air: Don't believe her.
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And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me
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The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.
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The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not.
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Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.
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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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He was still in love with you, anyway.
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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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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.
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I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.
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Some things are better left buried and forgotten.
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I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.
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Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?
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He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.
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Po flickered. Thank you? it repeated. What is that? Liesl thought. It means, You were wonderful, she said. It means, I couldn't have done it without you.
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Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .
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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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