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

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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
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I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.
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I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older
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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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I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
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only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.
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Lindsay calls them the Pugs: pretty from far away, ugly up close.
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Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
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It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.
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All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.
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I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.
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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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That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes.
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anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.
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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University
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Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
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It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.
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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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I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.
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Hope keeps you alive.
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Waste today, want tomorrow.
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