Lauren DeStefano Quotes

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• 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.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fall, Autumn, Saving Up

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Struggle, World, Injustice

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Perfect Ruin”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

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  Heart, Wrinkles, Hair

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Kings, Pulse, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 16, 2013

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• 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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  Morning, Sleep, Cat

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• Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

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  Fire, Broken, Pieces

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Thinking, Brave, Listening

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• The madness of youth made me unafraid.

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  Youth, Madness, Made

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Perfect Ruin”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎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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  Ocean, Forever, Touching

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Like You, Angry, Ifs

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Perfect Ruin”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• We writers are resilient souls.

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  Soul, Resilient

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• 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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  Liars, Fool, Excellent

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• Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.

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  Dark, Long, Childhood

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me. "Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything." "Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy.

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  Summer, Mother, Confused

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• 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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  Pain, Party, Orange

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.

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  Bye, Stronger, Lifetime

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day.

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  Mean, Sky, Tree

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jul 12, 2013

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• Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched islands. They have seen how we destroyed the world. If I could see everything, as the clouds do, would I swirl around this remaining continent, still so full of color and life and seasons, wanting to protect it? Or would I just laugh at the futility of it all, and meander onward, down the earth’s sloping atmosphere?

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  Ocean, Moving, Clouds

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• And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.

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  Trying, Dies, Ifs

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

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  Race, Fake, Dying

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

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  Skulls, Bird, Mind

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Girl, Hate, World

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Sky, Natural

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.

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  Long, Want, Realizing

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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