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Lauren DeStefano is an American young-adult author. She is best known for the Chemical Garden series of novels and her gallows humor.
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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

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I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

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But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

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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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Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry. No, that wasn't it. Or it wasn't completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her ...

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Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

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Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

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Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

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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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I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.

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It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

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No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.

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Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

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There is a need, in every world, to believe in things that cannot be seen.

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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

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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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My father warned me that you’re an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since we’re no longer married and you’re not my concern,” he says. The thought gives me a chill. Yes, I’m sure Vaughn would love for his son to abandon me, s...

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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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Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.

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Author Bio

  • NameLauren DeStefano
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist