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That's the thing about faith. It works.

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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But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.
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It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.
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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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It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.
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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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That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
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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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His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
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One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.
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The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.
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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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Nobody ever said life was fair.
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Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.
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The idea—the fact of it, the fact that he even noticed and thought about me for more than one second—is huge and overwhelming, makes my legs go tingly and my hands feel numb.
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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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The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.
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But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.
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That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.
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