“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
“We hope for things we may not get to see, and we hold on with both hands because it's one of the… — Lauren DeStefano Hope Copy Share Image
“...Do dreams have to be confined to the same place as the dreamer?” — Lauren DeStefano Dream Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died,… — Lauren DeStefano Bricks Copy Share Image
“Bright spots move around him like someone shook the stars from a blanket and they all went flying.” — 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
...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together. — Lauren DeStefano Bad thing Copy Share Image
Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet. — Lauren DeStefano Absolutes 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
You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say. — Lauren DeStefano Insane Copy Share Image
He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling… — Lauren DeStefano Daylight Copy Share Image
“And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. "I love you, too.” — Lauren DeStefano Time Copy Share Image
“The trouble was already there," Reed says."You've just uncovered it, is all.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that… — Lauren DeStefano City Copy Share Image
I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it. — Lauren DeStefano Birth Copy Share Image
His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he… — Lauren DeStefano Alliances Copy Share Image
I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood. — Lauren DeStefano Ashes Copy Share Image
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me. — Lauren DeStefano Could 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 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
“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
