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Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Thing
Running
Past
Change
Tugging
Back
Spine
Best
Speaking
Take
Fingers
Feel
Hear
Feels
Fear

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Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
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And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
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Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
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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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He looked at me like I was beautiful.
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Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.
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That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy
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