Quotes by Lauren DeStefano

About Lauren DeStefano:

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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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

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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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This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that gets washed by the ocean.

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She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

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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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There’s this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each other. The stronger twin develops normally, while the weaker twin crumples and is encased by the body of the stronger twi...

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We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way...

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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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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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When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

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A feeling can't kill you.

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She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

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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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Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

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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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His lips are familiar. I know the shape of them, know how to make mine fit against them. His taste is familiar too. For all the illusions and colors and sweet smells... he has always tasted like skin. His breaths are shallow. I'm holding his life aga...

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Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love." He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says.

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He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us...

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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 t...

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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

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Author Bio

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