Quote

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

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
Everything
Middle
Liked
Midnight
Book
Books
Library
Copies
First
Getting
Kinds
Frustrated
Kind
Reading
Adults
Grades
Really
Happy
Summer
Adult
Sheldon
Read
Side
List
Sidney
Mother
Went
Lists
Copy
Firsts
Sides
Bored
Grade

More quotes by 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
Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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
Image
I was born into a world that was already dying I belong to it.
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
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
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.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
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
Image
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.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
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
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.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
Give me time For you, always.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
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
I never wanted to live forever, she says. I just wanted enough time.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
Lauren DeStefano
Image
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
Lauren DeStefano