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Nobody ever said life was fair.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Fairs
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Nobody
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Life

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Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .
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Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.
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It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.
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Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
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I love you. Remember. And someday, I will find you again.
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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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His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
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Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.
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And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.
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I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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