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• 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.

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  Mind, Three, Paper

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

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  Girl, Fall, Eyelashes

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Dark, Return, Calling

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Way, Imagine, Dangerous

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Years, Worry, Dungeons

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

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  Skins, Weight, Want

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 15, 2013

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• 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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  Thinking, Forget, Known

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Perfect Ruin”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

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  Son, Lifetime, Belonging

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 22, 2012

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• and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.

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  Song, Love You, Past

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Jun 02, 2013

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• I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

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  Wall, Swim, Watches

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• 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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  Talking, Sky, Voice

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Daughter, Children, Long

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Tears, Faces, Scream

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “The Seeds of Wither: EBook Sampler with Exclusive Short Story”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

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  Might, Wonder, Another Time

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

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  Past, Exit, Illusion

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• What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

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  Done, Given, Given Up

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  Years, Ideas, Perfection

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.

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  Going Away, Purpose

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps... you love too fiercely.

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• 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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  Way, Illusion, Certain

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from May 23, 2012

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• 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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  Ocean, Body, Ribbons

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• A feeling can't kill you.

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  Feelings

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

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  Summer, Mother, Book

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• I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.

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  Book, Littles

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• 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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  Hair, Blood, Bullets

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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