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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

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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
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Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
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Nothing exists but him.
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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
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People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.
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He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
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Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.
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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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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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We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.
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I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short
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Hope keeps you alive.
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I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
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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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Maybe next time, but probably not.
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Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.
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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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I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same.
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The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.
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Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
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Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.
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