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

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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That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.
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Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.
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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's the thing about faith. It works.
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It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born you lived a whole life and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. Ah, well, he said out loud quietly. That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business. Death, he supposed, was the punch line.
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Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium
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But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.
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We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
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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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I want to know. His words are a whisper, barely audible. I want to know with you.
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His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.
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Po flickered. Thank you? it repeated. What is that? Liesl thought. It means, You were wonderful, she said. It means, I couldn't have done it without you.
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Nobody ever said life was fair.
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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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An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.
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I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. “I thought if I had a party, you would come.
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People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.
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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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