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We writers are resilient souls.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
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Connecticut
United States
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There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
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It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
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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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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
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It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
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To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
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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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Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.
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I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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Good night, sweetheart, he says. Good bye, sweetheart, I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.
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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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I miss something I never even had.
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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.
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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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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
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It's best to let her go, he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.
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What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
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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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