Top 100 Quotes About Destefano
#1. 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.
Lauren DeStefano
#2. Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, 'Real' is a dirty word in this place'.
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#3. Heaven is going to be a vast, colorful tapestry of living things. God is a God of life ... Does this seem too childish and silly to believe? I certainly hope so, because that's a sure sign that it's true.
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#4. But there's no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.
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#5. I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
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#6. As I go, I hear her screaming my name, in a brutal, bloody way, like she's being murdered, which maybe she is. But slowly. It will take her six years to die.
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#7. 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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#8. The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.
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#9. I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone the way he loves her. I wonder if she realizes, despite all her efforts to train me, that I can never take her place.
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#10. Every moment is a gift, from the frivolous to the dire. The taste of sweetgold, and the rough paper of our favorite books. I find a god in these things- which god I cannot say, but I'm grateful to it.
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#11. Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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#12. Ah, love. That's what the world has lost. There's no more love, only the illusion of it.
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#13. Free will isn't quite the same as freedom" -Daphne Leander
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#14. I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
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#15. When I die, my characters are going to spend forever pinging in the shadows and stars looking for brains to latch onto.
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#16. 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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#17. As a teen I was totally that dumpy overweight nerdy girl that nobody wants to be in the stories you're told. And now I am a dumpy overweight nerdy adult and life is beautiful like a song. I'm not a flower that bloomed in the mud. Just a girl who stayed steady on the path of determination.
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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. Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. A girl should never stop thinking," she says. "Otherwise we'll become what our world thinks of us.
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#24. He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.
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#25. On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are.
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#26. I have seen my father concede to utter defeat in the hospital room. I've heard him choke on sobs and whisper angry things to the god of the sky when he thought I was asleep at Lex's bedside. I know that those uniforms are worn by men - only men.
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#28. 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. We seem to have much in common with a girl who was killed for her ideas, he says.
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#30. When someone you care about is suffering, you don't care if the whole world burns down around them, or they're covered in scars, or blind. You just want them back. And you'll accept whatever conditions come along with it" -Morgan
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#33. I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional.
But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?
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#34. To lose one's mother was to lose the beginning of one's life story.
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#35. It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
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#36. 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.
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#37. And about a thousand other things, he says, pausing sometimes between his words, making sure he has them right. I get the sense that words are not sufficient tools for him to build what's going on in his head as he stands before me.
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#39. 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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#40. He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.
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#44. I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.
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#45. Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.
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#46. 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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#47. The train that circles Internment couldn't carry him far enough. My brother, the peripatetic, the sage, was too restless to stay in one place, but one place is all we're given. The only one who could quell this restlessness was Alice, always Alice, who swears she was born already in love with him.
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#49. I've recently begun to believe that love is synonymous with madness. It can't possibly be an act of sanity. It is restless and always in pursuit. It will fall from the sky to have what it wants.
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#50. Look," Linden says. " Look how beautiful it is."
"The sunrise?" I ask.
"The start of a new day," Linden says. "Being healthy enough to witness it.
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#51. 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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#52. I never wanted to live forever, I just wanted enough time.
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#54. I stare at my reflection in the glass, and I see two versions of myself: the twin sister, and the bride.
"It was supposed to be better than this," I whisper.
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#55. Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.
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#56. 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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#58. 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.
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#59. I become distantly aware of my own grief, and I realize how easily I'm able to force it away.
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#60. The trouble was already there," Reed says."You've just uncovered it, is all.
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#61. But you," "Sixteen is perfect. You can spend the rest of your lives together. He won't have to be alone.
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#62. 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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#63. For a while, it's just the sound of the water, and then Pen says, I didn't want him to die.
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#65. It wasn't enough that they stole our future; they had to steal our past.
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#66. For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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#67. Absorbing water from the clouds would make more sense than believing our lakes are a gift from the sky god. But when presented with the evidence, I see how much more terrifying it is to think we're on our own.
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#68. I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
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#69. I love Cecily", "whether or not you believe it. Not in the same way I loved Rose, or you. But what should that matter? I've loved all my wives differently.
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#70. Do I care for her? No. She tried to kill me and I don't especially like what she does with her hair.
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#71. In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.
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#72. You look like you've never done a thing wrong in your life, and people like that lack common sense.
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#73. 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.
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#74. This isn't living, what all of us are doing. We drive down long, dilapidated back roads.
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#75. Our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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#76. We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.
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#77. Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
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#78. Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.
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#79. 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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#80. If you've never been afraid, you haven't had your moment of bravery just yet
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#81. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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#82. 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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#83. To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
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#84. I feel unburdened, and after a while I start to imagine that the divan is a boat moving over the ocean. Sunken cities play music beneath the waves. The ghosts are stirring.
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#85. I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.
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#87. I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
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#88. 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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#90. 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.
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#91. I don't know very much about art - that has always been Pen's area - but I do believe that it is honesty at its core" -Morgan
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#92. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. I love you, too.
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#97. I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. 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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