“My face is burning and I want to kick her, I want to kick her, I want to kick her.” — Lauren DeStefano Burning Copy Share Image
There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her. — Lauren DeStefano Bothered Copy Share Image
I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep. — Lauren DeStefano Atlas Copy Share Image
“The world is still out there. They just want you to think it’s gone.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will. — Lauren DeStefano Freedom Copy Share Image
I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness. — Lauren DeStefano Consciousness 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 Look up 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
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
Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up… — Lauren DeStefano Claims 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 Body 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
A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain… — Lauren DeStefano Able Copy Share Image
I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue. — Lauren DeStefano Created Copy Share Image
“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 Carried Wind 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
“She was right. There is no finality to a funeral. Linden is gone and I saw him go, but there’s still the… — Lauren DeStefano Funeral Copy Share Image
I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my… — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe was thought to be magic once, before we came to understand it. We thought the stars were magic,… — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy 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 don't realize how badly I've needed to say those words until they've left my mouth. They hang in the air. And… — Lauren DeStefano Truth Copy Share Image
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 Ache Copy Share Image
“My uncle used to let me pretend they were bricks," Linden says, startling me. He eases a thick hardcover from the shelf,… — Lauren DeStefano Hardcover Copy Share Image
“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 Past life 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 Internment Copy Share Image
“ The first humans were especially ungrateful. After the birth of the sun and the moon, they asked for stars. After the… — Lauren DeStefano Sun And The Moon Copy Share Image
