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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
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I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?
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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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I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
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Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.
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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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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 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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You’re insane, you know that?” he says. “It’s the only thing keeping me afloat,” I say.
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It's never right to give up on someone.
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Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
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The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.
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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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I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
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Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
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You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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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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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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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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