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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
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Life
Limited
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Choices
Every

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If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.
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I just want to be normal, like everybody else. Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
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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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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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The old Lena is dead.
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I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
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I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.
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I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.
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I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.
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Love obeys no laws other than its own.
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Some things are better left buried and forgotten.
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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
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Each step is more difficult than the last the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.
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Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it.
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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
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Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.
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But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.
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Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous.
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Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.
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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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