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His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.
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I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.
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I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up
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He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.
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And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.
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Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
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No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.
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We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.
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The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.
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It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.
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There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.
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I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.
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There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.
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Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.
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But there's no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.
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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone the way he loves her. I wonder if she realizes, despite all her efforts to train me, that I can never take her place.
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Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
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I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
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Lauren DeStefano
Born:
October 13, 1984
(age 39)
Bio:
Lauren DeStefano is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Chemical Garden series of novels and her gallows humor.
Known for:
Wither (2011)
Perfect Ruin (2013)
Broken Crowns (2016)
Burning Kingdoms (2015)
Fever (2012)
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