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Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Alive
Keep
Enough
Love

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Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
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Cure is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
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In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us.
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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.
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The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
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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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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
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who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.
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...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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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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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.
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I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
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And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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I miss something I never even had.
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