Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
Author
Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Bye
Victims
Witness
Victim
Lifetime
Stronger
Byes
Good
Credited
Witnesses

More quotes by Lauren DeStefano

Image
I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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
Image
Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, Go.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
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
Real’ is a dirty word in this place.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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?
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
Image
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
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
Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
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
Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay.
Lauren DeStefano