“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
There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it. — Lauren DeStefano Calling 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 Psychology 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 Copy Share Image
“Maybe it really was a spirit," Pen offers. “Spirits aren't real,“ he says. "The living invent them to console themselves. If you… — Lauren DeStefano Life Copy Share Image
I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with… — Lauren DeStefano Bones Copy Share Image
For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. — Lauren DeStefano Age 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
“Procedures. Like “incident,” this is another word that covers a broad range of unpleasant things.” — Lauren DeStefano 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
“There are lots of love stories here.....They either end happily or everyone dies.” — Lauren DeStefano Love 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
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
“If you've never been afraid, you haven't had your moment of bravery just yet” — Lauren DeStefano Courage 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
I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time. — Lauren DeStefano Enough 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 Grows 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
“As I go, I hear her screaming my name, in a brutal, bloody way, like she's being murdered, which maybe she is.… — Lauren DeStefano 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“They both have that distance, living in the world their thoughts create.” — Lauren DeStefano Philosophy of Mind 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
