Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring … - Lauren Oliver

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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

Lauren Oliver

Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.

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It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

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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 spoon to our babies.

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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.

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i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

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It's like a razor blade edging its way through my organs, shredding me, all I can think is: It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

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