Lauren DeStefano Quotes

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

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.

It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

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.

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

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

We can change so many times on 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.

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.

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

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."
He laughs.

You can’t be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it’s the fear that’ll freeze you in place.

If you've never been afraid, you haven't had your moment of bravery just yet

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

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

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

Tell freedom I said hello.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.