Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Like
Avoid
Forehead
Everywhere
Bullet
Careful
Foreheads
Hair
Boom
Blood
Sits
Head
Bullets
Next
Waves
Around
Wave
Blond
More quotes by Lauren DeStefano
Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
Lauren DeStefano
Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefano
I miss something I never even had.
Lauren DeStefano
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.
Lauren DeStefano
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.
Lauren DeStefano
I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.
Lauren DeStefano
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
Lauren DeStefano
I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
Lauren DeStefano
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.
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
And everywhere girls, tumbling from trees like orange blossoms and hitting the earth with sickening thuds. They crack open.
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
There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
Lauren DeStefano
It's best to let her go, he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.
Lauren DeStefano
who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.
Lauren DeStefano
Cure is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?
Lauren DeStefano
It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
Lauren DeStefano
I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.
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
There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
Lauren DeStefano
