You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“People live in my head. If they do anything interesting, don't worry, I write it down for ya.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions — Lauren DeStefano Best intentions Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Procedures. Like “incident,” this is another word that covers a broad range of unpleasant things.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us. — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy Copy Share Image
“...Do dreams have to be confined to the same place as the dreamer?” — Lauren DeStefano Dream Copy Share Image
Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free. — Lauren DeStefano Bird Copy Share Image
It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It feels as though we’re going in slow motion. I think we’ll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far… — Lauren DeStefano Ferris wheel Copy Share Image
We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“...through every scenario I could think of. But I never thought that he would be the one to leave me. I never… — Lauren DeStefano Heartbroken Copy Share Image
We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He wants the jars that have caught the morning light; I think he believes they hold little pieces of the sun.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if… — Lauren DeStefano Care Copy Share Image
There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“This story is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. "I could find another one," Basil says. "No, I want to see… — Lauren Destefano Copy Share Image
I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“And about a thousand other things," he says, pausing sometimes between his words, making sure he has them right. I get the… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“When Cecily comes to sit beside me, we rest our heads together and I tell her a final story about the twins.… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But… — Lauren DeStefano Children Copy Share Image
“It's your way,' he says. 'When you were little, you were like a question mark with eyes.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries. — Lauren DeStefano Comedy Copy Share Image
“The pieces of my life can never seem to stay in one place.” — Lauren DeStefano Life Copy Share Image
“I don't want illusions. I'm tired of feeling like I'm in a dream from which I can never awaken.” — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“When you were little, you were like a question mark with eyes.” — Lauren DeStefano Eyes Copy Share Image
I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I'm going to call you Rose," he says with resolution, working the back off an old clock.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.” — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction Copy Share Image
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. — Lauren DeStefano Daylight Copy Share Image
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate. — Lauren DeStefano Hate Copy Share Image
Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
