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• The months fall to shards at my feet.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fall, Feet, Months

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 sand.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Ocean, Body, Ribbons

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Sea, Broken

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Heart, Giving

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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• There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Done, Limits

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Husband, Father

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that." "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Thinking, Decision, Tea

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• Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

  Lauren DeStefano

  World, Illusion, Lost

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Love Is, Weapons, Lovers

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Differences, Nightmare, Consciousness

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

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  Fire, Trying, Different

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Reality, Trying, Willpower

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Life, Forever, Enough Time

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Letting Go, Fall, People

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Majesty, Hurricanes, Explosions

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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

  Lauren DeStefano

  Dying, World, Born

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Oxygen, Drink

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I miss something I never even had.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Missing

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

  Lauren DeStefano

  Love Is, Dangerous, Maybe Love

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

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  Home, Mean

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Should Have, Alive, Gone

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder what it’s like for her, looking so much like a dead girl.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Girl, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Aug 12, 2012

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• I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Book, Littles

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• It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Teacher, Writing, Ideas

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• Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Twists, World, Classic

  "'Wither' Author Lauren Destefano On Why Dystopian Fiction Is Fun", www.mtv.com. May 5, 2011.

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