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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 39
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.
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There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.
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The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.
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But I know all the things you're too sweet to know.
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You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
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There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.
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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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Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
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We writers are resilient souls.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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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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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.
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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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I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
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Don't you miss it? I say. Being free. He laughs.
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It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls. There are always walls. I say.
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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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I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
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