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It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

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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
People
Hardly
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Strange
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I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
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Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
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And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry.
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I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend to have time to waste.
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It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.
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And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.
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only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.
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When we get out of highschool we'll look back and know we did everything right, that we kissed the cutest boys and went to the best parties, got in just enough trouble, listened to our music too loud, smoked too many cigarettes, and drank too much and laughed too much and listened too little, or not al all.
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This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.
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Quiet through the grave go I or else beneath the graves I lie
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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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Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.
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