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Hope keeps you alive.

Lauren Oliver

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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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Alive
Hope

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The question was: Will you meet me tomorrow? And the word was: Yes.
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.
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Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.
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Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.
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only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.
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But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
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Kent? I say, and my voice seems to have to rise from inside the fog, taking forever to get from my brain to my mouth. Yeah? Promise you'll stay here with me? I say. I promise, he whispers.
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It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
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Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.
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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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