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Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.
Lauren Oliver
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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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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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The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
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He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.
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It was a bird. A bird struggling through stickiness: a bird coated in paint, floundering in its nest, splashing color everywhere. Red. Red. Red. Dozens of them: black feathers coated thickly with crimson-colored paint, fluttering among the branches. Red means run.
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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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An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
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