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I love the little everyday routines, writes Lauren Oliver, finding joy in simple details. She describes the mix of excitement and nervousness at parties, and she shares how writing fuels her happiness. Her words capture moments of awe and heartfelt ache.

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“one last time,”

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“But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.”

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“Time is really just a test of patience.”

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“Just for that moment, I feel as though I belong here.”

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Maybe next time, but probably not.

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Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

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“Names don't mean a thing anymore. The past is dead.”

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“Funny, isn't it, how quickly the future becomes the past.”

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This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot.

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For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have…

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For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it…

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It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

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The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

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“I'm scared all the time," she whispered. "You'd be an idiot if you weren't," Anne said. "And you wouldn't be brave either.”

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Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it…

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“...how in the end it's impossible to understand the finality of certain things, certain words, certain moments.”

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“You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over…

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Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers…

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I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free…

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“It’s us against them, three against countless thousands. But for some reason, and even though it’s absurd, at that moment I feel…

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Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling…

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With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was…

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“In my mind, I was reliving my whole life again-slowly, taking my time. Delaying. Because I knew, sooner or later, I'd get…

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Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we…

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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…

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That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead…

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“Other memories—from different times and places, from my old life—have weasled their way in alongside these. It's transfiguration, the slippery nature of…

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Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment…

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“I remember I once saw this old movie...; in it the main character was talking about how sad it is that the…

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“Before, Alex seemed far away. Now the room is full of him: He is so close I can't breathe...move or speak or…

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“You may think the past has something to tell you. You may think that you should listen, should strain to make out…

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But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing. For now, there is only a homestead built of trash and scraps,…

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“He has given me a time and a place. He’s telling me to meet him.”

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Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

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“on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new…

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“He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly. It’s time to jump.”

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“They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past. But we are still here. And there are more…

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“And I realize, that this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.”

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I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.

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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…

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“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me?…

..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like…

“You can't judge a book by its steel-toed combat boots.”