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You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.

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 beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.
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Nothing exists but him.
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Grief is like sinking, like being buried.
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But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.
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It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand.
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I’m with Julian,” I say at last. This, after all, is what I have chosen.
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That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories.
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Fear. Blame. Don't forget. Mom. I love you. -Lauren Oliver, Delerium
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I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.
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amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again.
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Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.
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Maybe next time, but probably not.
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