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Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge.
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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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It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.
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anything, anything is possible, if you can just see the sky.
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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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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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I guess there are some things you never get used to.
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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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Nobody ever said life was fair.
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All this time, I thought we were growing apart because I was leaving Lena behind. But really it was the reverse. She was learning to lie. She was learning to love.
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Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.
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It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)
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Funny how certain things stay with you.
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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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We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.
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Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.
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I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i dont just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop
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An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
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Some things are better left buried and forgotten.
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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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In one of the tents, Julian is sleeping. And in another: Alex
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