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Nancy Werlin (born October 29, 1961) is an American writer of young-adult novels. She was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, raised in that state, and graduated with a B.A. in English from Yale College. She was a National Book Award nominee for The Rules of Survival, a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel for The Killer's Cousin in 1999, and an Edgar award finalist for Locked Inside.

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There is nothing in this world that I want or need, but you.

Needs, Nothing, Want, World

It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her. " Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on. " Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.

Baby, Lock, Running, Said, Think, Thinking

Music links us humans, heart to heart. . . Across time and space, and life and death.

Death, Heart, Life And Death, Links, Space, Time

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Life, Mistake, Nice, Tape, Thinking

When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

Dream, Endurance, Happen, Miracle, Real, Saying

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Know, Life, Long, Supposed, Supposed To Be

MATTHEW'S RULES OF SURVIVAL 1. Sometimes, the people who mean you harm are the ones who say they love you. 2. Fear is your friend. When you feel it, act. 3. Protect the little ones. 4. If you coped before, you can cope now. 5. Always remember: In the end, the survivor gets to tell the story.

Fear, Gets, Love You, Mean, People

You can be special without being extraordinary.

Extraordinary, Special

Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

Ends, Remember, Stories, Story, Surviver, Tell

I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.

Honestly, Life, Thinking, Tough, Whine

If it ought to be done, then apply yourself to it strenuously

Apply, Done, Ifs, Ought

I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now.

Happened, Person, Sorry, Though, Want, Years

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication

Fellowship, Formed, Gone, Medication

No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

Hate, Okay, People, Telling The Truth, Truth

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Adult, Adults, Embark, Life, Mistake, Nice

Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?

Kissing, Madly, Slap, Time, True, Wanted

Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

Harm, Love You, Mean, Ones, People, Say

It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

Beneath, Black, Fear, Might, Suspected, Window

Leo and Soledad simultaneously gave out a sort of half laugh, half snort. It was loud, and it was relieved, and it broke the tension and caused Pierre to bark again, indignantly. All of which meant that neither of them heard it when Zach turned to Lucy in that same second and whispered: There's something else you need to know. I'm not just your friend. I am completely in love with you.

Laughing, Love You, Meant, Needs, Same, Sort

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

Danger, Expect, Love You, Mean, People, Say

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