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
“The trouble was already there," Reed says."You've just uncovered it, is all.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all. — Lauren DeStefano Beautiful Copy Share Image
I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere. — Lauren DeStefano Home Copy Share Image
“She strokes my cheeks with the side of her hand – a repetitive, wispy motion. Like little ghost kisses.” — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction 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 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
“We're born moving forward. Sometimes we lose people along the way, and all we can do is watch them get smaller behind… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I wonder if the people of the ground ever feel that their children are too big for their world, too.” — Lauren DeStefano Child Copy Share Image
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We… — Lauren DeStefano Best intentions 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
“Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it is watching it replay anew in… — Lauren DeStefano Loss Copy Share Image
So how long do you think it’ll be?” he says. “Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home.” “Can I… — Lauren DeStefano Biggest fear 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 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
“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 nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
