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Funny how certain things stay with you.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
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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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He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.
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He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
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Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.
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We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.
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And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo.
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Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.
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Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.
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This was what true fear was--that you could never know other people, not completely. That you were always just guessing blind.
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We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
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...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started spinning overhead. Hana was laughing and giggling, but I didn't like it, didn't like the sweet sick taste in my mouth or the way my thoughts seemed to break apart like a mist in the sun.
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Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds they repair the broken skin.
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Life isn't life if you just float through it.
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It's surprisingly nice out here, peaceful and pretty-strange to be standing in the middle of a little garden while enclosed by the massive stone walls of the prison, like being at the exact center of a hurricane, and finding peace and silence in the middle of so much shrieking damage.
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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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I love you. They can't take it away.
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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
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There are some losses we never get over.
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