Lauren DeStefano Quotes - Page 6

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up

who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

My head is my favorite swimming pool.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.

Tell freedom I said hello.

Did you tell freedom hello for me?

Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

So how long do you think it’ll be?” he says. “Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home.” “Can I tell you my biggest fear?” I say. “Yes. Tell me.” “That it will be a very windless four years.

He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.

Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

Don't forget how you got here. Don't Forget.

I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.

She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

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

Fate,' I said, 'Is a theif.

When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance.

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.