“...but now she’s somber. The sunlight in her fine honey-brown hair does nothing to relinquish her from the grayness that overshadows her.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.” — Lauren DeStefano Ocean Copy Share Image
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I don’t look away, because she’s right: I betrayed her, and I’m not sorry. To keep her safe, I would betray a… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we… — Lauren DeStefano Autumn Copy Share Image
“He knows that I'm not like the other girls--the normal ones--that a part of me is slipping off this floating city, and… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“This was the way it had always been between them. The world tried to destroy them, but they kept each other alive.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“The portrait rattles and goes still. I wonder if the dream would do my mother any good. I wonder if all that… — Lauren DeStefano Children Copy Share Image
“Absorbing water from the clouds would make more sense than believing our lakes are a gift from the sky god. But when… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be… — Lauren DeStefano Brother Copy Share Image
“Do you even know what it feels like to lose someone you loved?" he asks. "I lost everyone I loved," I tell… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I feel unburdened, and after a while I start to imagine that the divan is a boat moving over the ocean. Sunken… — Lauren DeStefano Music Copy Share Image
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl… — Lauren DeStefano Brides Copy Share Image
Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Without trying, I seem to write about these poor boys who are absolutely mad for girls who are otherwise engaged in perilous… — Lauren DeStefano Writing Copy Share Image
“You--" she chokes on a sob and draws back. "You're scared? What a thing to say. You had me thinking you were… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to… — Lauren DeStefano Flower Copy Share Image
It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life,… — Lauren DeStefano Dungeons Copy Share Image
“Bright spots move around him like someone shook the stars from a blanket and they all went flying.” — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I wanted someone, somewhere, whom I might never meet, to read a sentence I wrote and think, “I thought I was the… — Lauren DeStefano Thought Copy Share Image
You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Whenever there's something I don't like about a stranger, I try to imagine that someone out there loves them, and it puts… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“When I lost Rose, I kept going, I still do, but I’ll never be what I was when she was alive. It’ll… — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he… — Lauren DeStefano Alliances Copy Share Image
“As I go, I hear her screaming my name, in a brutal, bloody way, like she's being murdered, which maybe she is.… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“It's best not to wonder at what cost. Freedom is the only price to pay for anything in this place.” — Lauren DeStefano Freedom Copy Share Image
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… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“...our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at… — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only… — Lauren DeStefano Forgiving Copy Share Image
“Suppose it was painful," she whispers. "All that broken skin." She has been so steely I can almost forget she's in mourning.” — Lauren DeStefano Grief Copy Share Image
“And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. "I love you, too.” — Lauren DeStefano Illusion Copy Share Image
