I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all. — Lauren DeStefano Beautiful Copy Share Image
Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane. — Lauren DeStefano Gabriel Copy Share Image
But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved. — Lauren DeStefano Different Copy Share Image
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore. — Lauren DeStefano Captive Copy Share Image
You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say. — Lauren DeStefano Insane Copy Share Image
“...Do dreams have to be confined to the same place as the dreamer?” — Lauren DeStefano Dream Copy Share Image
Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us. — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy Copy Share Image
“It's your way,' he says. 'When you were little, you were like a question mark with eyes.” — Lauren DeStefano Question mark 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 Faces Copy Share Image
“It feels as though we’re going in slow motion. I think we’ll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far… — Lauren DeStefano Ferris wheel Copy Share Image
“The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an… — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy 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 Linden-ashby Copy Share Image
“I wipe at her cheeks with the cuff of my green sweater because it’s the softest thing I can think of. It… — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction Copy Share Image
“...through every scenario I could think of. But I never thought that he would be the one to leave me. I never… — Lauren DeStefano Heartbroken Copy Share Image
We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime… — Lauren DeStefano Bye 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 Character Copy Share Image
“One afternoon, as Rose lay in a sweaty daze, teetering on the edge of consciousness, she made me swear that I would… — Lauren Destefano Promise 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… — Lauren DeStefano Life Copy Share Image
“I don't want the whole world knowing just how extraordinary you are.' I straighten his tie 'Are my eyes what make me… — Lauren DeStefano Gaze Copy Share Image
“So many girls allow themselves to be bleeding idiots because that's what's expected of them. Dress like a girl. Walk like one.… — Lauren DeStefano Desire Copy Share Image
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 Bedroom 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 Anticipation Copy Share Image
“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 Fitness 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 Care Copy Share Image
“When I was little, my brother drew an image for me on the train ride home from the academy. It was a… — Lauren DeStefano Fitness Copy Share Image
Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he… — Lauren DeStefano About yourself Copy Share Image
“I open my mouth to, I don't know, apologize again maybe. But he takes my face in his hands and presses his… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions — Lauren DeStefano Best intentions 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 Done Copy Share Image
who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries. — Lauren DeStefano Comedy Copy Share Image
“The pieces of my life can never seem to stay in one place.” — Lauren DeStefano Life Copy Share Image
“He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.” — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction Copy Share Image
“I'm going to call you Rose," he says with resolution, working the back off an old clock.” — Lauren DeStefano Rose Says Copy Share Image
What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know. — Lauren DeStefano Done Copy Share Image
