Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
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
Together
Thing
Keeps
Maybe
Hope
More quotes by Lauren DeStefano
There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
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
I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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
He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.
Lauren DeStefano
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
Lauren DeStefano
Good night, sweetheart, he says. Good bye, sweetheart, I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
Lauren DeStefano
I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.
Lauren DeStefano
He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere.
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
I figured it out eventually, she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. It's momentum. What? I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. Momentum, she repeats. You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have
Lauren DeStefano
It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
Lauren DeStefano
We writers are resilient souls.
Lauren DeStefano
Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
Lauren DeStefano
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
Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
Lauren DeStefano
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
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
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
Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefano