Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.

Lauren DeStefano

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

Lauren DeStefano

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

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But there's no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

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

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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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I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.

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Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.

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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other.

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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

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I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

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Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

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