Lauren Destefano Quotes

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

~ Lauren Destefano

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

~ Lauren Destefano

Don't you miss it? I say. Being free.He laughs.

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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

~ Lauren Destefano

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

~ Lauren Destefano

The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.

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It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

~ Lauren Destefano

Felix wasn't sure of his limits, if he had limits. After he'd been dead a while, he began to suspect he could swim to the bottom of the oceans. Beyond that. He suspected that he could swim so far down that he'd eventually go through the center of the earth and come out the other side. He could swim into the clouds, into the stars. Maybe there were ghosts on the other planets. Maybe there were ghosts laughing and splashing each other with the heat of the sun. He wasn't brave enough to find out.

~ Lauren Destefano

Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.

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I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

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Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, 'Real' is a dirty word in this place'.

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Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.

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Trust is the strongest weapon.

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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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I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

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He was now working his way through the many shades of grief. Sadness made everything gray, he'd learned, but there were different types of gray, some darker than others. There were dark spots in his memories he wasn't brave enough to enter.

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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.

~ Lauren Destefano

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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And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

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I 'd never seen him cry, I didn't think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .

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There is no darkness like that of a confined space.

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We writers are resilient souls.

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This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.

~ Lauren Destefano

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

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

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She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

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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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We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.

~ Lauren Destefano

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

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It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

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She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.

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Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.

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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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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

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My father warned me that you’re an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since we’re no longer married and you’re not my concern,” he says. The thought gives me a chill. Yes, I’m sure Vaughn would love for his son to abandon me, so that Vaughn can swoop in and reclaim me the second I’m alone. But Linden adds, “I told him that wouldn’t be a good idea either.

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Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

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Wanting to be happy is not stupid.

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The madness of youth made me unafraid.

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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.

~ Lauren Destefano

We're all born an empty page.

~ Lauren Destefano