Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Lauren DeStefano
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lauren DeStefano
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Continues
Guide
Guides
Distance
Light
Time
Washes
Rotation
Lighthouse
More quotes by Lauren DeStefano
Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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
I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
Lauren DeStefano
Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
Lauren DeStefano
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
Lauren DeStefano
A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.
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
and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said.
Lauren DeStefano
Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.
Lauren DeStefano
Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefano
I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?
Lauren DeStefano
She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
Lauren DeStefano
I miss something I never even had.
Lauren DeStefano
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.
Lauren DeStefano
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
Lauren DeStefano
Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.
Lauren DeStefano
Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
Lauren DeStefano
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
I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.
Lauren DeStefano
The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.
Lauren DeStefano
