Lauren DeStefano Quotes
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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
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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.
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Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.
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I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.
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There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
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The months fall to shards at my feet.
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When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
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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.
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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.
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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
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She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.
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Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.
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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.
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I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.
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Did you tell freedom hello for me?
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Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
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And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is.
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I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.
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She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.
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None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.
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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other." Pg 225
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The world seems so clean if you only looked up.
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