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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Knees
Nearly
Brought
Dies
Free
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Live

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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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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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Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.
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That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.
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I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.
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I’ve always hated being looked at.
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Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible.
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I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.
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His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
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The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
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I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.
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This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
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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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The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.
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