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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

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Done, Weapons, Strongest

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.50, 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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There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.

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Pain, Taken, Broken

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

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Together, Bad Things

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

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Passion, Years, Would Be

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

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But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

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Different, Way, Horrible

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

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Giving Up, Giving, Let Her Go

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Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

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Beautiful, Lying, Faces

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.206, 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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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 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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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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You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

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Dream, People, Risk

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Oct 03, 2012

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I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

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Beautiful, Thinking, Humanity

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.

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Good Night, Bye, Sweetheart

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

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Glasses, Hands, Long

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Aug 04, 2013

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Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

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Want, Arms, Protect

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Nov 10, 2012

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Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

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Doors, Sides, Strange

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Nov 20, 2012

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The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.

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Tiny, Grows, Resent

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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Things will get worse before they get better.

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Things Will Get Better, Get Better

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions

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Curiosity, Intention, Best Intentions

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.

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Beautiful, Night, Secret

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.

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Hair, Blood, Bullets

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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A feeling can't kill you.

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Feelings

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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