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He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

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Looks, Daylight, Nodding

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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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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Lonely, Loneliness, Who I Am

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

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Wall, Ignorance, Son

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.

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Forget

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

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Taught, Wanted

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 25, 2013

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On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling. Yet here we are.

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Girl, Tiptoes, Forlorn

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

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Mother, Garden, Secret

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

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Morality, Edges

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She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

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Beautiful, Loyal, Murder

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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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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Sky, White, Snow

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.333, Simon and Schuster

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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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Effort, Doe, Way

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

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Girl, Orange, Tree

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.

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Fate, Said

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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

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Memories, Air, Oxygen

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.

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Clouds, Feelings, Would Be

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jul 31, 2013

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I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

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Running, Want Something, Feelings

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Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

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Stars, Thinking, Sky

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 24, 2013

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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.

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Book, Kids, Eye

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

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Voice, Gabriel, Hurricanes

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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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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Wife, Dying, Trying

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.

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Laughing, Missing, Being Free

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

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Believe, Writing, World

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Dec 11, 2012

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I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

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Reality, Trying, Willpower

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

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Dying, Remember, Born

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

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Mean, Names, Used

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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