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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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Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.
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The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.
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I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
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That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.
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Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.
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It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.
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I’ve always hated being looked at.
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And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry.
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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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