My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life,… — Lauren DeStefano Dungeons Copy Share Image
“I wanted someone, somewhere, whom I might never meet, to read a sentence I wrote and think, “I thought I was the… — Lauren DeStefano Thought Copy Share Image
You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“When I lost Rose, I kept going, I still do, but I’ll never be what I was when she was alive. It’ll… — Lauren DeStefano Death Copy Share Image
His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he… — Lauren DeStefano Alliances 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
“Whenever there's something I don't like about a stranger, I try to imagine that someone out there loves them, and it puts… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free,… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“This story is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. "I could find another one," Basil says. "No, I want to see… — Lauren Destefano Copy Share Image
“Look," Linden says. " Look how beautiful it is." "The sunrise?" I ask. "The start of a new day," Linden says. "Being… — Lauren DeStefano Health Copy Share Image
He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“Violence is the only way to achieve freedom, it seems. I wouldn't have thought so before all of this. My escape plan… — Lauren DeStefano Freedom Copy Share Image
Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I draw back,gently step out of his hands that gripped my shoulders and were just edging their way to either side of… — Lauren DeStefano 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
“Helplessly I look at him. He will never be just Rowan again. I will never be just Rhine. Everything has been tampered… — Lauren DeStefano Rhine Copy Share Image
No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I thought for sure she was gone. But there was a little bit left in her, wasn't there? Just enough.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. — Lauren DeStefano Dream Copy Share Image
“Every word out of your mouth," he pants, "has been a lie, hasn't it?" "No," I say softly. "Not everything." "What about… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“I don’t look away, because she’s right: I betrayed her, and I’m not sorry. To keep her safe, I would betray a… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we… — Lauren DeStefano Autumn Copy Share Image
I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be… — Lauren DeStefano Brother Copy Share Image
“This was the way it had always been between them. The world tried to destroy them, but they kept each other alive.” — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He knows that I'm not like the other girls--the normal ones--that a part of me is slipping off this floating city, and… — 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 Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.” — Lauren DeStefano Ocean Copy Share Image
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family. — Lauren DeStefano Beautiful Copy Share Image
Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in… — Lauren DeStefano Doorways Copy Share Image
“I want to be the cure that doesn’t exist. But I’m nothing. I can’t even work up the courage to say something.” — Lauren DeStefano Courage Copy Share Image
“There used to be an entire world of people and countries out there, but they’ve all since been destroyed by wars so… — Lauren DeStefano War Copy Share Image
When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's… — Lauren DeStefano Alive Copy Share Image
The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be… — Lauren DeStefano Boys Copy Share Image
Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
“When I die, my characters are going to spend forever pinging in the shadows and stars looking for brains to latch onto.” — Lauren DeStefano Astronomy Copy Share Image
“If you wake up in the morning with a pulse, your blunders from the day before are gone and you can do… — Lauren destefano Blunders Copy Share Image
“Basil would never go for this - me chasing after an accused murderer in the darkness. He says there's nothing wrong with… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
