Lauren DeStefano Quotes - Page 7

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 the other side.

Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.

I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.

I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t.

His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.

You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.

I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.

Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. “Rhine Ashby,” he says. “My wife.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.