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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.
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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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No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.
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I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.
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Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
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Grief is like sinking, like being buried.
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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i dont just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop
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you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.
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I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University
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I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.
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Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
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But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.
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