A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“The world is still out there. They just want you to think it’s gone.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane. — Lauren DeStefano Gabriel Copy Share Image
The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose. — Lauren DeStefano Going away Copy Share Image
“For a while, it's just the sound of the water, and then Pen says, "I didn't want him to die.” — Lauren DeStefano Water Copy Share Image
Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world… — Lauren DeStefano 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 Copy Share Image
“the abandoned traffic lights stare at us like empty eye sockets. Fields have gone to weed. There’s a little town of houses… — Lauren DeStefano 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
Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire. — Lauren DeStefano Passion Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that… — Lauren DeStefano 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 Copy Share Image
“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
He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here… — Lauren DeStefano Book Copy Share Image
“You've always had trouble relinquishing control, haven't you? But it's a rewarding thing. People need a leader. They need to feel that… — Lauren DeStefano Leader 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 Copy Share Image
“I listen to the rain and the thunder, and I think I hear Jenna's voice in them, sounding out a warning. She's… — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“I wish I could remember it. I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air,… — 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 Copy Share Image
“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“My face is burning and I want to kick her, I want to kick her, I want to kick her.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“We’re all living in a parallel universe of what the world used to be.” — Lauren DeStefano Life Copy Share Image
There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you something about love. It's no science to it. I'ts natural as the sky” — Lauren DeStefano Love Copy Share Image
“I become distantly aware of my own grief, and I realize how easily I'm able to force it away.” — Lauren DeStefano Grief Copy Share Image
In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“There's something about imminent death that makes all the threads weave into a picture...” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it. — Lauren DeStefano Illusion Copy Share Image
“If you've never been afraid, you haven't had your moment of bravery just yet” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
