Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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