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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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I want to know. His words are a whisper, barely audible. I want to know with you.
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I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now. Don't worry, Will said. We'll figure something out. Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.
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That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.
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Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.
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If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.
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Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
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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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Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.
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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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Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
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Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
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