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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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i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up.
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Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.
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Some things are better left buried and forgotten.
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There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.
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Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.
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But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, and unreachable, but beautiful to watch. And some of them―the best ones―are doors.
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Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults--cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.
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Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.
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His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams.
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Music, I think, he makes me feel like music
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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
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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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And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.
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Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.
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Love obeys no laws other than its own.
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It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches. Red means run.
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Maybe next time, but probably not.
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One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.
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Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
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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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