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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
New York
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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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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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I love you. They can't take it away.
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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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I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.
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People need other people to feel things for them, she said. It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.
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I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.
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Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that-what we felt, what it meant- that's done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.
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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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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'll find you, he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. I won't let you go again
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that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.
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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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He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
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I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.
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Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead? Do you think I was being stupid? Naive? Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me. I thought I would live forever too.
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Life isn't life if you just float through it.
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Quiet through the grave go I or else beneath the graves I lie
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It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born you lived a whole life and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. Ah, well, he said out loud quietly. That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business. Death, he supposed, was the punch line.
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I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now. Don't worry, Will said. We'll figure something out. Liesl managed to smile at him. She liked that word: *we*. It sounded warm and open, like a hug.
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