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The first one, we’ll name Blue.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Westchester County
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Blue

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I can admit, now, that I must have loved Lena. Not in an Unnatural way, but my feelings for her must have been a kind of sickness. How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
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If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.
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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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It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.
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The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast... He shakes his head. Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.
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Nothing exists but him.
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people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons.
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If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.
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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.
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Sarah: Not bad. You look almost human. Lena: Thanks. Sarah: I said almost. Lena: Well, then, almost thanks.
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I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.
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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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You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends.
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An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
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You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.
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I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.
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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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