Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.
Lauren DeStefano - Sever
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
"You're insane, you know that?" he says.
"It's the only thing keeping me afloat," I say.
"It's the only thing keeping me afloat," I say.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither
"I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you."
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
I'll tell you something about true love. There's no science to it. It's as natural as the sky.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
There's a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.
Lauren DeStefano - Sever
When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.
Lauren DeStefano - Sever
I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
"Momentum," She repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run."
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
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.
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.
Lauren DeStefano - Sever
Fate, I think, is a thief.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither
You've been captive for so long that you don't even realize you want freedom anymore.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither
We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions.
Lauren DeStefano - Sever
I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
Lauren DeStefano - Fever
It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither
Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither
Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither
We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.
Lauren DeStefano - Sever
Herbst war schon immer meine liebste Jahreszeit. Wenn alles in letzter Schönheit erstrahlt, als würde die Natur sich das ganze Jahr für das große Finale aufsparen.
Lauren DeStefano - Wither