“Rhine: It's okay that you miss her. She was the love of your life. Linden: Not the only love. It feels wrong… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Now isn't the time to be angry with my brother, but I suppose the anger I feel for him never goes away.… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“My father warned me that you’re an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since we’re no longer married and… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see… — Lauren DeStefano 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
“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
Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you something about love. It's no science to it. I'ts natural as the sky” — Lauren DeStefano 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 Copy Share Image
“I love Cecily", "whether or not you believe it. Not in the same way I loved Rose, or you. But what should… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“There are lots of love stories here.....They either end happily or everyone dies.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other.” — 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 Copy Share Image
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I watch the perfectly imperfect people several stories below, living their perfectly imperfect lives, and I think about how many decades will have to… — Lauren DeStefano 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 a more… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Rhine: It's okay that you miss her. She was the love of your life. Linden: Not the only love. It feels wrong to think… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“She strokes my cheeks with the side of her hand – a repetitive, wispy motion. Like little ghost kisses.” — Lauren DeStefano 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
“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… — 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 ribbon of… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“This isn’t living, what all of us are doing. We drive down long, dilapidated back roads.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
