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
I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run. — Lauren DeStefano Momentum Copy Share Image
I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I'm going to call you Rose," he says with resolution, working the back off an old clock.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Old cheerful songs about frivolous things that mean nothing to me.” — 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
“The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an… — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy Copy Share Image
“I wipe at her cheeks with the cuff of my green sweater because it’s the softest thing I can think of. It… — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction Copy Share Image
“I love Cecily", "whether or not you believe it. Not in the same way I loved Rose, or you. But what should… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.” — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it… — 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
“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 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
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
There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“When Cecily comes to sit beside me, we rest our heads together and I tell her a final story about the twins.… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“And about a thousand other things," he says, pausing sometimes between his words, making sure he has them right. I get the… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.” — Lauren DeStefano Poetic-fiction Copy Share Image
“There are lots of love stories here…They either end happily or everyone dies.” — Lauren DeStefano Love Copy Share Image
Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I wonder what it’s like for her, looking so much like a dead girl. — Lauren DeStefano Girl 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
So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear. — Lauren DeStefano Fear 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
“It feels as though we’re going in slow motion. I think we’ll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far… — Lauren DeStefano Ferris wheel 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
“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
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
