Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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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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I see an ocean that's spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

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I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

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Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

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There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.

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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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When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

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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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Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

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

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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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I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

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It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

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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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There's a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

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I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

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My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is.

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

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She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

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It isn't a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.

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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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I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

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

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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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