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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Connecticut
United States
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Things will get worse before they get better.
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I always knew I was an excellent liar I just didn't know that I had it in me to fool myself.
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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.
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I never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
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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.
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It's never right to give up on someone.
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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.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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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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Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
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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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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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I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.
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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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Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other. Pg 225
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You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
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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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Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive.
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Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
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