Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free. — Lauren DeStefano Bird Copy Share Image
“People live in my head. If they do anything interesting, don't worry, I write it down for ya.” — Lauren DeStefano Write Copy Share Image
“When you were little, you were like a question mark with eyes.” — Lauren DeStefano Eyes Copy Share Image
“I don't want illusions. I'm tired of feeling like I'm in a dream from which I can never awaken.” — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.” — Lauren DeStefano Frivolous Copy Share Image
I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing. — Lauren DeStefano Horrible Copy Share Image
It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone. — Lauren DeStefano Giving 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
“I'll never disappear. I promise that every time I leave, I'll always come back.” — Lauren DeStefano Disappear Copy Share Image
“But he has a clever way of getting answers with carefully worded statements.” — Lauren DeStefano Clever 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 Sister Copy Share Image
There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled… — Lauren DeStefano Casualties Copy Share Image
Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination. — Lauren DeStefano Child Copy Share Image
“I find my way back to the door, leaving him to his new day so he may think of Rose, whose sunrises… — Lauren DeStefano Good morning Copy Share Image
“Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this… — Lauren DeStefano Funny Copy Share Image
In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know… — Lauren DeStefano Distance Copy Share Image
None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try… — Lauren DeStefano Cybersecurity 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
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky. — Lauren DeStefano Love Copy Share Image
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end. — Lauren DeStefano Beautiful Copy Share Image
“All my unanswered questions are in the smoke and bottles she drew, begging to be burned away.” — Lauren DeStefano Burned Copy Share Image
“In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other.” — Lauren DeStefano Another time Copy Share Image
There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering. — Lauren DeStefano Believe 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
Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known. — Lauren DeStefano Forget Copy Share Image
“There's something about imminent death that makes all the threads weave into a picture...” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
“But you," "Sixteen is perfect. You can spend the rest of your lives together. He won't have to be alone.” — Lauren DeStefano Perfect Copy Share Image
“It's best not to wonder at what cost. Freedom is the only price to pay for anything in this place.” — Lauren DeStefano Freedom Copy Share Image
“There used to be an entire world of people and countries out there, but they’ve all since been destroyed by wars so… — Lauren DeStefano War Copy Share Image
“Helplessly I look at him. He will never be just Rowan again. I will never be just Rhine. Everything has been tampered… — Lauren DeStefano Rhine Copy Share Image
He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the… — Lauren DeStefano Blood Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that… — Lauren DeStefano Actually 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
“He knows that I'm not like the other girls--the normal ones--that a part of me is slipping off this floating city, and… — Lauren DeStefano Doesn Care Copy Share Image
Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we… — Lauren DeStefano Autumn 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
Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms… — Lauren DeStefano Arms Copy Share Image
“Do you even know what it feels like to lose someone you loved?" he asks. "I lost everyone I loved," I tell… — Lauren DeStefano Feels Copy Share Image
“Without trying, I seem to write about these poor boys who are absolutely mad for girls who are otherwise engaged in perilous… — Lauren DeStefano Writing Copy Share Image
“You--" she chokes on a sob and draws back. "You're scared? What a thing to say. You had me thinking you were… — Lauren DeStefano Scared Copy Share Image
