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Some things are better left buried and forgotten.

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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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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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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
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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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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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They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.
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An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
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The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
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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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For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here I should never have asked him to cross.
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I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
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Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.
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Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.
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I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.
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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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amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.
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It was as though the darkness was a sheet of raw cookie dough and someone had just taken a cookie cutter and made a child-sized shape out of it.
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People need other people to feel things for them, she said. It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
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anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.
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I just want to be normal, like everybody else. Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
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