Lauren DeStefano Quotes & Sayings
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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. — Lauren DeStefano
Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination. — Lauren DeStefano
People live in my head. If they do anything interesting, don't worry, I write it down for ya. — Lauren DeStefano
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me. — Lauren DeStefano
The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me. — Lauren DeStefano
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" she chokes on a sob and draws back. "You're scared? What a thing to say. You had me thinking you were dead. — Lauren DeStefano
I just hate to see you like this," he says. "Isn't there anything I can do?"
You could murder Vaughn. You could free Gabriel. You could help repair the damage that's been done to our home. By you.
This room is surely being recorded, though, and all I say is, "No."
He tilts my chin, and then he cups his hands around my ear and whispers, "I don't believe that."
I look at him, and I see the same look in his eyes as on the morning when I told him I was going to bring Linden home. Vaughn may be Rowan's benefactor, but I'm his twin sister. Even after this time spent apart, he can read me. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
Our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries. — Lauren DeStefano
Only bottles and locks and drawn curtains," Pen says, trying to balance on the edge of the sidewalk to little avail. "This cold is drawing the burn right out of my veins," she sulks. "I think I'm already sober."
"You aren't," I assure her. — Lauren DeStefano
My face is burning and I want to kick her, I want to kick her, I want to kick her. — Lauren DeStefano
I still don't know where you came from," he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky."
"Some days I feel like I did." I say. — Lauren DeStefano
She wished that when her heart was beating double, she could give one of those hearts to him and then press her ear to his chest and feel it beating. — Lauren DeStefano
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
Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known. — Lauren DeStefano
All my unanswered questions are in the smoke and bottles she drew, begging to be burned away. — Lauren DeStefano
The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me. — Lauren DeStefano
Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side. — Lauren DeStefano
On Internment, you can be anything you dream
a novelist or a singer, a florist or a factory worker. You can spend entire afternoons watching clouds so close it's as though you're riding on them. Your life is yours to embrace or to squander. There's only one rule: You don't approach the edge. If you do, it's already over. My brother is proof of that. He has successfully quieted my delusions I held about seeing the ground for myself. — Lauren DeStefano
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. — Lauren DeStefano
No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am. — Lauren DeStefano
Do I care for her? No. She tried to kill me and I don't especially like what she does with her hair. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate. — Lauren DeStefano
Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
Did you tell freedom hello for me? — Lauren DeStefano
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky. — Lauren DeStefano
My sisters were in that van. — Lauren DeStefano
I stare at my reflection in the glass, and I see two versions of myself: the twin sister, and the bride.
"It was supposed to be better than this," I whisper. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
And I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said. — Lauren DeStefano
It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return. — Lauren DeStefano
Procedures. Like "incident," this is another word that covers a broad range of unpleasant things. — Lauren DeStefano
We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes. — Lauren DeStefano
Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is. — Lauren DeStefano
I wonder what it's like for her, looking so much like a dead girl. — Lauren DeStefano
There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it. — Lauren DeStefano
There is a need, in every world, to believe in things that cannot be seen. — Lauren DeStefano
Things will get worse before they get better. — Lauren DeStefano
It's your way,' he says. 'When you were little, you were like a question mark with eyes. — Lauren DeStefano
I don't want illusions. I'm tired of feeling like I'm in a dream from which I can never awaken. — Lauren DeStefano
What's it like to be able to remember someone you lost?"
"It's like my mother has become an actress in a play. And the play isn't told in order, and sometimes the lines have changed. Sometimes I'm sitting too far away to see her face or hear her voice. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. — Lauren DeStefano
You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place. — Lauren DeStefano
With free will comes inevitable error and misjudgement — Lauren DeStefano
Tell freedom I said hello. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
Don't bury your sense of wonder. It's a rare thing, and one of the things I adore most about you" -Basil — Lauren DeStefano
Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They're moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched islands. They have seen how we destroyed the world. If I could see everything, as the clouds do, would I swirl around this remaining continent, still so full of color and life and seasons, wanting to protect it? Or would I just laugh at the futility of it all, and meander onward, down the earth's sloping atmosphere? — Lauren DeStefano
He wants the jars that have caught the morning light; I think he believes they hold little pieces of the sun. — Lauren DeStefano
I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room. — Lauren DeStefano
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. — Lauren DeStefano
Before I can process what's happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger.
"Rhine Ashby," he says.
"My wife. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
When I die, my characters are going to spend forever pinging in the shadows and stars looking for brains to latch onto. — Lauren DeStefano
She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean, Madame says. — Lauren DeStefano
The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again. — Lauren DeStefano
Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together. — Lauren DeStefano
Free will isn't quite the same as freedom" -Daphne Leander — Lauren DeStefano
The train that circles Internment couldn't carry him far enough. My brother, the peripatetic, the sage, was too restless to stay in one place, but one place is all we're given. The only one who could quell this restlessness was Alice, always Alice, who swears she was born already in love with him. — Lauren DeStefano
There's this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each other. The stronger twin develops normally, while the weaker twin crumples and is encased by the body of the stronger twin, where it becomes a parasite. The result is a single child, plagued by a twin-shaped fossil inside. Like a tumor.
In death Rose became Linden's parasitic twin. They were two separate organisms once, growing steadily beside each other. Two pulses. Two brains. But she has crumpled and died, and still he carries her inside himself. She goes where he goes, feeling nothing, seeing nothing, a shadow behind his ribs. — Lauren DeStefano
The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an atmosphere of stars. — Lauren DeStefano
I have seen my father concede to utter defeat in the hospital room. I've heard him choke on sobs and whisper angry things to the god of the sky when he thought I was asleep at Lex's bedside. I know that those uniforms are worn by men - only men. — Lauren DeStefano
I've seen no proof, only words, but words can be powerful" -Morgan — Lauren DeStefano
I love Cecily", "whether or not you believe it. Not in the same way I loved Rose, or you. But what should that matter? I've loved all my wives differently. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love. — Lauren DeStefano
We are taught that curiosity is a thing to be feared. But our first trains came from curious minds. As did medicine, and clocks, and first kisses. — Lauren DeStefano
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open. — Lauren DeStefano
Look," Linden says. " Look how beautiful it is."
"The sunrise?" I ask.
"The start of a new day," Linden says. "Being healthy enough to witness it. — Lauren DeStefano
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
I'll tell you something about love. It's no science to it. I'ts natural as the sky — Lauren DeStefano
I see it now.
There are no rules. It's survival of the fittest — Lauren DeStefano
Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free. — Lauren DeStefano
It feels as though we're going in slow motion. I think we'll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far enough away that it could be a moving constellation. — Lauren DeStefano
I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality. — Lauren DeStefano
Do dreams have to be confined to the same place as the dreamer? — Lauren DeStefano
Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart. — Lauren DeStefano
I never wanted to live forever, I just wanted enough time. — Lauren DeStefano
I'm sitting on the floor of the hospital lobby, waiting. That's always the worst part, the waiting. — Lauren DeStefano
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me. — Lauren DeStefano
Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway. — Lauren DeStefano
He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean. — Lauren DeStefano
I want to be the cure that doesn't exist. But I'm nothing. I can't even work up the courage to say something. — Lauren DeStefano
Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it. — Lauren DeStefano
Now isn't the time to be angry with my brother, but I suppose the anger I feel for him never goes away. I cover it with love and with patience, but it doesn't undo what he's taken from all of us. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore. — Lauren DeStefano
You have all heard the warnings about the edge. We have been told its winds are a song that will hypnotize us, and by the time we awaken from that trance, it will be too late. — Lauren DeStefano
We're all living in a parallel universe of what the world used to be. — Lauren DeStefano
What have you done? What have you given up?'
So many things, Cecily. More than you know. — Lauren DeStefano
I dream of where I am, and what lies before me. I do not dream of where I've been or what I've left behind. I tell myself that this is what I've wanted from the moment I was captured, and that I should be happy. — Lauren DeStefano
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. — Lauren DeStefano
I don't know very much about art - that has always been Pen's area - but I do believe that it is honesty at its core" -Morgan — Lauren DeStefano
On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are. — Lauren DeStefano