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There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
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 is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. But that isn't it, exactly. The condemner and the condemned. The executioner the blade the last-minute reprieve the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you God. Love: It will kill you and save you, both.
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Everything looks beautiful. The Book of Shhh says that deliria alters your perception, disables your ability to reason clearly, impairs you from making sound judgments. But it does not tell you this: that love will turn the whole world into something greater than itself.
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And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
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When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. So I guess we saved each other.
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Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.
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For the first time in a long time, I actually look at her. I've always thought Lena was pretty, but now it occurs to me that at some point - last summer? last year? - she became beautiful.
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anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.
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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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No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.
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Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.
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For a second I feel a rush of sadness: for the horizons that vanish behind us, for the people we leave behind, the tiny-doll selves that get stored away and ultimately buried.
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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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I guess there are some things you never get used to.
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We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.
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No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other and the rest of the world can go to hell.
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As we're standing there I realize we're almost exactly the same height. We must look like the dark and light side of an Oreo cookie, and I think how just as easily it could have been the other way around. She could be blocking my path I could be trying to slip around her into the dark.
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It's like high school holds two different worlds, revolving around each other an never touching the haves and the have-nots. I guess it's a good thing. High school is supposed to prepare you for the real world, after all.
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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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This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.
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