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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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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.
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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.
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Tell freedom I said hello.
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Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
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It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
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I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.
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You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.
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Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
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Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.
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Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.
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It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
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Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
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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.
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Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet.
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I figured it out eventually, she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. It's momentum. What? I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. Momentum, she repeats. You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have
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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
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I miss something I never even had.
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My sisters were in that van.
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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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So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.
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