“In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“They just want to make sure we haven't gone mad. You haven't gone mad, have you?” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“They both have that distance, living in the world their thoughts create.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I become distantly aware of my own grief, and I realize how easily I'm able to force it away.” — Lauren DeStefano Grief Copy Share Image
Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it. — Lauren DeStefano Illusion Copy Share Image
I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died,… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a… — Lauren DeStefano Body Copy Share Image
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“We have each other, and we always will, whatever happens. And if someone does murder me, you needn’t worry because I’ll come… — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A… — Lauren DeStefano Clothes Copy Share Image
“PEOPLE USED to be connected to one another all the time. That’s what my parents told me. Everyone had phones and computers.… — Lauren DeStefano Computers Copy Share Image
We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine,… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I have seen my father concede to utter defeat in the hospital room. I've heard him choke on sobs and whisper angry… — Lauren DeStefano Failure Copy Share Image
“It's very early, still dark, but outside there's the warm smell of springtime, like things rotting and blooming in one stagnant mist.… — Lauren DeStefano Art of life Copy Share Image
“There's something about imminent death that makes all the threads weave into a picture...” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“If you've never been afraid, you haven't had your moment of bravery just yet” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Death itself is no match for you. The day you were born, it shrank away in fear.” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
“And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.” — Lauren DeStefano Autumn Copy Share Image
“We seem to have much in common with a girl who was killed for her ideas," he says.” — Lauren DeStefano Girl Copy Share Image
I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I see it now. There are no rules. It's survival of the fittest” — Lauren DeStefano Fittest Copy Share Image
“She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean,” Madame says.” — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction Copy Share Image
“Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this… — Lauren DeStefano Funny Copy Share Image
I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the… — Lauren DeStefano Champagne Copy Share Image
“Just what I need." Pen throws back the blankets. "Another man in my life. At least this one doesn't speak.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It’s like I’m evolving into something that doesn’t include him. I don’t think I can ever be the person I was before… — Lauren DeStefano Evolving Copy Share Image
