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Every choice is limited. That's life.

Lauren Oliver

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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
Limited
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Choices
Every
Life

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This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.
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It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.
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This is what I want. This is the only thing I've ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.
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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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Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner the blade the last-minute reprieve the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.
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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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Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.
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So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.
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I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.
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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.
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He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.
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That’s what made it so frightening to the lawmakers: Love obeys no laws other than its own.
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The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.
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Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.
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The tunnels may be long, and twisted, and dark but you are supposed to go through them.
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Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the final few steps to the door and step out into the cold, where the rain is still coming down like shards of moonlight, or like steel.
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That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead.
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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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