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Over the past week, I've accepted that I will never love Julian as much as I loved Alex. But now that idea is overwhelming, like a wall between us. I will never love Julian like I love Alex.
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Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain
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You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.
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Willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the backs of the dead.
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With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Freedom is exhausting.
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I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around.
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It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling.
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We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.
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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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I keep having the urge to cross my hands over my chest, to cover up my breasts, to hide. I'm suddenly aware of how pale I look in the sunshine, and how many moles I have spotting up and down my chest, and I just know he's looking at me thinking i'm wrong or deformed. But the he breathes, 'Beautiful' and when his eyes meet mine I know that he really, truly means it.
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A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.
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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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And how she looked at me like I could save her from everything bad in he world. This was my secret: she was the one who saved me
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Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die
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And we did, and it wasn't bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me. I'm gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown; I'm reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar.
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He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.
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Everything I see and touch reminds me of him, and so everything I see and touch is perfect.
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But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?
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That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
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Hate isn't the most dangerous thing, he'd said. Indifference is.
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This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
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Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds.
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As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I'm looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.
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I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
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The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Lauren Oliver
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November 8, 1982
(age 41)
Bio:
Lauren Oliver is an American author of the young adult novels Before I Fall, Panic and the Delirium trilogy; Delirium, Pandemonium and Requiem, which have been translated into more than thirty languages. She is a 2012 E.B.
Known for:
Delirium (2011)
Before I Fall (2010)
Pandemonium (2012)
Vanishing Girls (2015)
Requiem (2013)
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