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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

Lauren DeStefano

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Love
Dangerous
Maybe
Hope
Persons
Person
Thing

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Set fire to the broken pieces start anew.
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I miss something I never even had.
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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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Tell freedom I said hello.
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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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She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.
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I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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We writers are resilient souls.
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She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
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To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
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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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So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.
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