This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without … - Lauren Oliver

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If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as an individual to maximize his own wealth in the market.

Lauren Oliver

This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where children crack their heads on stone fireplaces and nearly gnaw off their tongues and the parents are concerned. Not heartbroken, frantic, desperate. Concerned, as they are when you fail mathematics, as they are when they are late to pay their taxes.

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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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