Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
Lauren DeStefano
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Alive
Keep
Enough
Love
More quotes by Lauren DeStefano
Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
Lauren DeStefano
I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
Lauren DeStefano
Don't you miss it? I say. Being free. He laughs.
Lauren DeStefano
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
Lauren DeStefano
None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.
Lauren DeStefano
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.
Lauren DeStefano
We are stronger than we've credited ourselves to be. We have been the victims and the witnesses. We have said a lifetime of good-byes.
Lauren DeStefano
There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.
Lauren DeStefano
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
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.
Lauren DeStefano
It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.
Lauren DeStefano
I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?
Lauren DeStefano
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.
Lauren DeStefano
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
Lauren DeStefano
I never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
Lauren DeStefano
There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
Lauren DeStefano
It's best to let her go, he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.
Lauren DeStefano
Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
Lauren DeStefano
I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
Lauren DeStefano
Someday I'll tell you all of it, I say. I'd like that, he says. No, I say. I promise you won't.
Lauren DeStefano