Lauren DeStefano > Quotes

“Fate, I think, is a thief.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“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, Wither

“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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“Did you tell freedom hello for me?”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Tell freedom I said hello.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who
tries.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“The world seems so clean if you only looked up.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Real’ is a dirty word in this place.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“‎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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“So how long do you think it’ll be?” he says. “Before the next hurricane comes along to take you home.”
“Can I tell you my biggest fear?” I say.
“Yes. Tell me.”
“That it will be a very windless four years.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“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, Wither

“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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“Tell freedom I said hello.'
'If I happen to see it, I will.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither

“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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Sever

“I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Fever

“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.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Wither