Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike anything I thought myself capable of. Rage, unlike anything I've ever known.

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I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.

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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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In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

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We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

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

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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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She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

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He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.

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The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.

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Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

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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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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

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Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known.

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Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.

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We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

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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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I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

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

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You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.

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She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.

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There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.

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Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

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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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