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There are some losses we never get over.

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
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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
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An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
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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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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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It's the way he says my name: like music.
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