Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Looks
Pages
Feel
Room
Feels
Rooms
Think
Books
Thinking
Words
Like
Lives
Used
Sees
Book
Rose

More quotes by Lauren DeStefano

Image
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.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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
Image
I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Someday I'll tell you all of it, I say. I'd like that, he says. No, I say. I promise you won't.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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
Image
...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
Lauren DeStefano