Lauren DeStefano Quotes - Page 7

Quotes about:

Bones Books Children Dreams Dying Fate Feelings

There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.

Lauren DeStefano

Dream, Clothes, Feelings

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.

Lauren DeStefano

Promise, I Promise, Someday

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
It's never right to give up on someone.

Lauren DeStefano

Giving Up, Giving

4 Copy quote
We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.

Lauren DeStefano

Daughter, Children, Would Be

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

Lauren DeStefano

Running, Want Something, Momentum

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Aug 07, 2014

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

Lauren DeStefano

Hate, Love You, Unrequited Love

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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

Lauren DeStefano

Lonely, Loneliness, Who I Am

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.

Lauren DeStefano

Mean, Fate, Hands

4 Copy quote
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.

Lauren DeStefano

Wall, Ignorance, Son

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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

Lauren DeStefano

Looks, Daylight, Nodding

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

4 Copy quote
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.

Lauren DeStefano

Mother, Garden, Secret

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

Lauren DeStefano

World, Want, Okay

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

4 Copy quote
It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.

Lauren DeStefano

Decision, Terrible

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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

Lauren DeStefano

Girl, Husband, Boys

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

4 Copy quote
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.

Lauren DeStefano

Waiting, Add, Looks

Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

5 Copy quote
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.

Lauren DeStefano

Home, Thinking, Years

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
Did you tell freedom hello for me?

Lauren DeStefano

Inspiration, Hello

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

Lauren DeStefano

Love, Fall, Autumn

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

Lauren DeStefano

Real, Dirty, Dirty Words

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Dec 17, 2015

4 Copy quote
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.

Lauren DeStefano

Color, Gone, Alive

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls." "There are always walls." I say.

Lauren DeStefano

Wall, Quiet

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

4 Copy quote
I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

Lauren DeStefano

Sorry, Loss, Awful

Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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

Lauren DeStefano

Morality, Edges

4 Copy quote
Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

Lauren DeStefano

Stars, Thinking, Sky

FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 24, 2013

4 Copy quote
There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.

Lauren DeStefano

Hair, Going Away, Lips

Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

33 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Lauren DeStefano

Follow

Born: October 13, 1984
Occupation: Author
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics