“Death itself is no match for you. The day you were born, it shrank away in fear.” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I see it now. There are no rules. It's survival of the fittest” — Lauren DeStefano Fittest Copy Share Image
“She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean,” Madame says.” — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction Copy Share Image
“And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.” — Lauren DeStefano Autumn Copy Share Image
“We seem to have much in common with a girl who was killed for her ideas," he says.” — Lauren DeStefano Girl 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. — Lauren DeStefano Character Copy Share Image
I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue. — Lauren DeStefano 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
We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“...through every scenario I could think of. But I never thought that he would be the one to leave me. I never… — Lauren DeStefano Heartbroken Copy Share Image
“Absorbing water from the clouds would make more sense than believing our lakes are a gift from the sky god. But when… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“The portrait rattles and goes still. I wonder if the dream would do my mother any good. I wonder if all that… — Lauren DeStefano Children Copy Share Image
When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I'm dreading fall. It is a terrifying season,' he says finally. 'Everything shriveling up and dying.' I don't know how to answer.… — Lauren DeStefano Beauty Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people… — Lauren DeStefano Desperation 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
We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“We have each other, and we always will, whatever happens. And if someone does murder me, you needn’t worry because I’ll come… — Lauren DeStefano Dreams Copy Share Image
“There are pillow creases on her face, and she cringes whenever she moves her legs.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“All my unanswered questions are in the smoke and bottles she drew, begging to be burned away.” — Lauren DeStefano 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
Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. — Lauren DeStefano Alive Copy Share Image
“They both have that distance, living in the world their thoughts create.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“In another time, another place, I wonder who we would have been to each other.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“They just want to make sure we haven't gone mad. You haven't gone mad, have you?” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear. — Lauren DeStefano Fear Copy Share Image
“This isn’t living, what all of us are doing. We drive down long, dilapidated back roads.” — Lauren DeStefano Drive 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
“But he has a clever way of getting answers with carefully worded statements.” — Lauren DeStefano Clever Copy Share Image
Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet. — Lauren DeStefano Absolutes Copy Share Image
“It wasn't enough that they stole our future; they had to steal our past.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
