Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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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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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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And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.

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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

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None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

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Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

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No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

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We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

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The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

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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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There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

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