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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.
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When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.
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Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
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There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
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I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
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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.
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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?
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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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Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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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.
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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
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There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.
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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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She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.
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She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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