Lauren DeStefano

The madness of youth made me unafraid.

— Lauren DeStefano

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

— Lauren DeStefano

Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.

— Lauren DeStefano

“Her smile is her revenge.”

— Lauren DeStefano

The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

— Lauren DeStefano

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

— Lauren DeStefano

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

— Lauren DeStefano

The months fall to shards at my feet.

— Lauren DeStefano

You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

— Lauren DeStefano

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will.

— Lauren DeStefano

“The trouble was already there," Reed says."You've just uncovered it, is all.”

— Lauren DeStefano

I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

— Lauren DeStefano

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

— Lauren DeStefano

“Men will pay great money to see that they can't touch you”

— Lauren DeStefano

You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

— Lauren DeStefano

“When you were little, you were like a question mark with eyes.”

— Lauren DeStefano

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new…

— Lauren DeStefano

I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.

— Lauren DeStefano

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

“Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died,…

— Lauren DeStefano

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

“I wonder if the people of the ground ever feel that their children are too big for their world, too.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“But we frightened him, us girls, with our intensity, the weight of our sadness and the sharpness of our hearts”

— Lauren DeStefano

“I find my way back to the door, leaving him to his new day so he may think of Rose, whose sunrises…

— Lauren DeStefano

Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that…

— Lauren DeStefano

We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll…

— Lauren DeStefano

“One afternoon, as Rose lay in a sweaty daze, teetering on the edge of consciousness, she made me swear that I would…

— Lauren Destefano

“His lips are familiar. I know the shape of them, know how to make mine fit against them. His taste is familiar…

— Lauren DeStefano

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was…

— Lauren DeStefano

and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all…

— Lauren DeStefano

“The train that circles Internment couldn't carry him far enough. My brother, the peripatetic, the sage, was too restless to stay in…

— Lauren DeStefano

They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all…

— Lauren DeStefano

“There’s this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each…

— Lauren DeStefano

He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes…

— Lauren DeStefano

“Cecily peers at the murky grey liquid and frowns at a cube of meat that's floating against the rim. "What was this…

— Lauren DeStefano

“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

“My uncle used to let me pretend they were bricks," Linden says, startling me. He eases a thick hardcover from the shelf,…

— Lauren DeStefano

“We'll never get you back then," he said. The words were meant to frighten me, but instead they filled me with romantic…

— Lauren DeStefano

And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats…

— Lauren DeStefano

“ The first humans were especially ungrateful. After the birth of the sun and the moon, they asked for stars. After the…

— Lauren DeStefano