“You aren’t crazy,’ he says. ‘What?’ ‘I’ve known you all your life, and you’ve always tried to hide the parts of yourself… — Lauren DeStefano Crazy Copy Share Image
I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness. — Lauren DeStefano Consciousness 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 Fingers Copy Share Image
“I stare at my reflection in the glass, and I see two versions of myself: the twin sister, and the bride. "It… — Lauren DeStefano Twin sister Copy Share Image
Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. — Lauren DeStefano Alive Copy Share Image
“My face is burning and I want to kick her, I want to kick her, I want to kick her.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“On Internment, you can be anything you dream--a novelist or a singer, a florist or a factory worker. You can spend entire… — 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 Children Copy Share Image
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate. — Lauren DeStefano Hate 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 Quiet Copy Share Image
“People live in my head. If they do anything interesting, don't worry, I write it down for ya.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really… — Lauren DeStefano Beauty Copy Share Image
“The world is still out there. They just want you to think it’s gone.” — Lauren DeStefano 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 Am Copy Share Image
But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike… — Lauren DeStefano Anger Copy Share Image
Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving… — Lauren DeStefano Autumn Copy Share Image
“I dream of where I am, and what lies before me. I do not dream of where I've been or what I've… — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“I know she isn’t coming back, but I still think that she will. Nothing can make that go away. We figure out… — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
“And about a thousand other things," he says, pausing sometimes between his words, making sure he has them right. I get the… — 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 Blink 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 Endless Copy Share Image
