“It’s like I’m evolving into something that doesn’t include him. I don’t think I can ever be the person I was before… — Lauren DeStefano Evolving Copy Share Image
The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave… — Lauren DeStefano Character Copy Share Image
“Just what I need." Pen throws back the blankets. "Another man in my life. At least this one doesn't speak.” — Lauren DeStefano Another man Copy Share Image
When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's… — Lauren DeStefano Alive Copy Share Image
The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be… — Lauren DeStefano Boys Copy Share Image
“I want to be the cure that doesn’t exist. But I’m nothing. I can’t even work up the courage to say something.” — Lauren DeStefano Courage Copy Share Image
She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family. — Lauren DeStefano Beautiful Copy Share Image
I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day… — Lauren DeStefano Add Copy Share Image
“PEOPLE USED to be connected to one another all the time. That’s what my parents told me. Everyone had phones and computers.… — Lauren DeStefano Computers Copy Share Image
“I wish I could remember it. I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air,… — Lauren DeStefano Cold air Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rain and the thunder, and I think I hear Jenna's voice in them, sounding out a warning. She's… — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“You've always had trouble relinquishing control, haven't you? But it's a rewarding thing. People need a leader. They need to feel that… — Lauren DeStefano Leadership Copy Share Image
“It's very early, still dark, but outside there's the warm smell of springtime, like things rotting and blooming in one stagnant mist.… — Lauren DeStefano Art of life Copy Share Image
He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here… — Lauren DeStefano Book Copy Share Image
I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm… — Lauren DeStefano Chosen Copy Share Image
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story,… — Lauren DeStefano Blackbirds Copy Share Image
“I rip my handout of hers, and I want to back away. I want to get as far from her as I… — Lauren DeStefano Tell Copy Share Image
“There is no darkness like that of a confined space. It's darker than the inside of eyelids, and darker than the night.” — Lauren DeStefano Darkness Copy Share Image
“It taught me that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries… — Lauren DeStefano Mind Copy Share Image
“You have all heard the warnings about the edge. We have been told its winds are a song that will hypnotize us,… — Lauren DeStefano Time Copy Share Image
“When I die, my characters are going to spend forever pinging in the shadows and stars looking for brains to latch onto.” — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on… — Lauren DeStefano Afraid Copy Share Image
Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even… — Lauren DeStefano Book Copy Share Image
“I draw back,gently step out of his hands that gripped my shoulders and were just edging their way to either side of… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a… — Lauren DeStefano Cups Copy Share Image
“Look," Linden says. " Look how beautiful it is." "The sunrise?" I ask. "The start of a new day," Linden says. "Being… — Lauren DeStefano Health Copy Share Image
There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free,… — Lauren DeStefano Broken Copy Share Image
“...but now she’s somber. The sunlight in her fine honey-brown hair does nothing to relinquish her from the grayness that overshadows her.” — Lauren DeStefano Brown hair Copy Share Image
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.” — Lauren DeStefano Ocean Copy Share Image
“I don’t look away, because she’s right: I betrayed her, and I’m not sorry. To keep her safe, I would betray a… — Lauren DeStefano Betray Copy Share Image
I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be… — Lauren DeStefano Brother Copy Share Image
“This was the way it had always been between them. The world tried to destroy them, but they kept each other alive.” — Lauren DeStefano Kept Copy Share Image
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. — Lauren DeStefano Dream Copy Share Image
“Every word out of your mouth," he pants, "has been a lie, hasn't it?" "No," I say softly. "Not everything." "What about… — Lauren DeStefano Linden-ashby Copy Share Image
“I thought for sure she was gone. But there was a little bit left in her, wasn't there? Just enough.” — Lauren DeStefano Gone Copy Share Image
No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I… — Lauren DeStefano Horrific Copy Share Image
The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to… — Lauren DeStefano Flower 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 Could Copy Share Image
“I feel unburdened, and after a while I start to imagine that the divan is a boat moving over the ocean. Sunken… — Lauren DeStefano Music Copy Share Image
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open. — Lauren DeStefano Cracks Copy Share Image
