Top 100 Lauren DeStefano Quotes
#1. In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.
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#2. When Cecily comes to sit beside me, we rest our heads together and I tell her a final story about the twins. The one whose grief drove him to set the country ablaze. And the one who found a way to love her captor.
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#3. The trouble was already there," Reed says."You've just uncovered it, is all.
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#4. I 'd never seen him cry; I didn't think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .
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#5. 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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#6. I want to be the cure that doesn't exist. But I'm nothing. I can't even work up the courage to say something.
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#7. That's the illusion of war. You think the world is over when your city comes down. But then you realize that you're just one city in a planet the size of ten million cities" -Nim
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#8. Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
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#9. Helplessly I look at him. He will never be just Rowan again. I will never be just Rhine. Everything has been tampered with.
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#10. I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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#12. To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
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#13. I dream of where I am, and what lies before me. I do not dream of where I've been or what I've left behind. I tell myself that this is what I've wanted from the moment I was captured, and that I should be happy.
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#14. I don't look away, because she's right: I betrayed her, and I'm not sorry. To keep her safe, I would betray a thousand kingdoms.
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#15. It's like I'm evolving into something that doesn't include him. I don't think I can ever be the person I was before all this.
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#16. This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.
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#17. Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.
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#18. It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
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#19. PEOPLE USED to be connected to one another all the time. That's what my parents told me. Everyone had phones and computers. Everyone called and kept in touch. They used to be everything, these things that are barely remembered now. These things that mean nothing to me.
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#20. Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.
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#21. 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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#22. I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
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#23. The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
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#24. They're making me go to school," Pram said. "I don't think it's a very good idea. I've read about how cruel kids can be."
"Are you afraid they'll be cruel, or that being around them for too long will make you cruel?" Felix said.
"Both, I suppose.
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#25. The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an atmosphere of stars.
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#26. 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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#29. And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.
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#31. 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.
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#32. There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.
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#33. My face is burning and I want to kick her, I want to kick her, I want to kick her.
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#34. Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known.
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#36. So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.
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#37. We're born moving forward. Sometimes we lose people along the way, and all we can do is watch them get smaller behind us as we move on and on.
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#39. I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you, Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep.
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#40. But we frightened him, us girls, with our intensity, the weight of our sadness and the sharpness of our hearts
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#41. There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, Go.
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#42. We hope for things we may not get to see, and we hold on with both hands because it's one of the few things that can't be stolen from us.
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#43. I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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#44. Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.
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#45. She wished that when her heart was beating double, she could give one of those hearts to him and then press her ear to his chest and feel it beating.
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#46. I've seen no proof, only words, but words can be powerful" -Morgan
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#47. I was born into a world that was already dying; I belong to it.
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#48. I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
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#49. You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.
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#51. Bright spots move around him like someone shook the stars from a blanket and they all went flying.
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#52. I see it now.
There are no rules. It's survival of the fittest
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#53. 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.
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#54. You
" she chokes on a sob and draws back. "You're scared? What a thing to say. You had me thinking you were dead.
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#55. I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.
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#56. The abandoned traffic lights stare at us like empty eye sockets. Fields have gone to weed. There's a little town of houses that have been haphazardly repaired by boards and scraps of metal.
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#57. I do question everything. But I want to have my questions. I want to have more thoughts than my mind can hold, so many that I have to write them in fragments like a madman.
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#59. But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike anything I thought myself capable of. Rage, unlike anything I've ever known.
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#60. Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."
He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.
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#61. Just what I need." Pen throws back the blankets. "Another man in my life. At least this one doesn't speak.
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#62. He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.
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#65. 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.
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#66. It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
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#67. I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain.
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#68. 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.
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#69. Elixirs. Pills. Specialists. Are they meant to help us, or to keep us compliant?" -Daphne Leander
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#70. Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
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#71. 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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#73. Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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#74. 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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#75. 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.
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#76. Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love.
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#77. 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.
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#79. I'm going to call you Rose, he says with resolution, working the back off an old clock.
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#80. The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.
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#81. My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is.
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#82. A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.
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#84. Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
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#85. I'll never disappear. I promise that every time I leave, I'll always come back.
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#86. Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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#87. I wanted someone, somewhere, whom I might never meet, to read a sentence I wrote and think, I thought I was the only one who felt that way.
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#88. Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
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#89. Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.
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#90. There are lots of love stories here ... They either end happily or everyone dies.
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#91. 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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#92. The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.
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#93. He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.
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#95. Basil would never go for this - me chasing after an accused murderer in the darkness. He says there's nothing wrong with me, but it's entirely possible he hasn't been paying enough attention.
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#96. There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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#99. She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.
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