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• Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

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  Monsters, Persons

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?

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  Children, Simple, Years

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• Give me time" "For you, always.

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  Giving, Give Me

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

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  Promise, World, Bothered

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.352, Simon and Schuster

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• There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

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  Girl, World, Body

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

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• I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.

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  Thinking, Atlas, Gabriel

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.

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  Trying, Would Be, Purpose

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Horrible

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

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  Broken, Fixed

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• So how long do you think it’ll be?” he says. “Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home.” “Can I tell you my biggest fear?” I say. “Yes. Tell me.” “That it will be a very windless four years.

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  Home, Thinking, Years

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you tell freedom hello for me?

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  Inspiration, Hello

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell freedom I said hello.

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  Hello, Said

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

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  Writing, Character, Impression

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• There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

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  Hair, Going Away, Lips

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

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  Ocean, Islands, Space

  Lauren DeStefano (2014). “The Chemical Garden Series Books 1-3: Wither, Fever, Sever”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

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  Waiting, Add, Looks

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.245, 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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• 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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• The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.

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  Girl, Husband, Boys

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

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  Decision, Terrible

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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• I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

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  World, Want, Okay

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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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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• He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.

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  Book, Thinking, Rose

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

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  Sorry, Loss, Awful

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

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  Wall, Quiet

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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