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Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
Lauren Oliver
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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.
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When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. So I guess we saved each other.
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I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
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Kent? I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. Yeah? Promise you'll stay here with me? I say. I promise, he whispers.
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That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
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I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.
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