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Something must die so that others can live.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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Something
Dies
Others
Live

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He looked at me like I was beautiful.
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And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.
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For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.
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Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.
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What glitters may not be gold and even wolves may smile and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
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The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.
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But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.
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