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Every choice is limited. That's life.
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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The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.
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No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.
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We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.
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Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
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But this isn’t like anything I’ve ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.
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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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Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting.
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Black is too morbid red will set them on edge pink is too juvenile orange is freakish
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I'm used to a feeling of doubleness, of thinking one thing and having to do another, a constant tug-of-war.
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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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His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
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Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.
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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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Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?
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We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
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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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This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds they repair the broken skin.
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I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.
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amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.
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