Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans… — 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 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
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
I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all… — 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
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
It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay. — Lauren DeStefano 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
who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost.… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her. — 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
I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children… — Lauren DeStefano 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
“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
