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Something must die so that others can live.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Must
Something
Dies
Others
Live

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My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.
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Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
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They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.
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He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
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Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.
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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 secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
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It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.
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Old words words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die
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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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I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.
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Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead? Do you think I was being stupid? Naive? Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me. I thought I would live forever too.
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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.
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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
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I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.
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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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