"When we're alive, life consumes us. But when……" — Lauren DeStefano
"When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us."
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174 Quotes by Lauren DeStefano
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The world seems so clean if you only looked up.
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