Poetic-fiction Quote by Lauren DeStefano

“I watch the perfectly imperfect people several stories below, living their perfectly imperfect lives, and I think about how many decades will have to…

— Lauren DeStefano

You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more…

— Lauren DeStefano

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

— Lauren DeStefano

“Rhine: It's okay that you miss her. She was the love of your life. Linden: Not the only love. It feels wrong to think…

— Lauren DeStefano

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

— Lauren DeStefano

Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

— Lauren DeStefano

“Now isn't the time to be angry with my brother, but I suppose the anger I feel for him never goes away. I cover…

— Lauren DeStefano

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of…

— Lauren DeStefano

Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.

— Lauren DeStefano

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

— Lauren DeStefano

“This isn’t living, what all of us are doing. We drive down long, dilapidated back roads.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“I don't know how it happens. We move our faces at the same time, and then our lips are touching. I've lost my worries.…

— Lauren DeStefano