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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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There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.
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Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.
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In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex
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Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe.
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And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry.
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Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
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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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Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward, and I know that she is dead. Falling, falling, falling . . .
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Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium
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Nobody ever said life was fair.
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The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
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I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
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That's what Zombieland is: frozen, calm, quiet.
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For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here I should never have asked him to cross.
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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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Quiet through the grave go I or else beneath the graves I lie
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The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.
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And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.
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It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.
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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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