I realized how wonderful YA is and how I really wanted to write something that created that level of intrigue. Lauren DeStefano More Quotes by Lauren DeStefano More Quotes From Lauren DeStefano You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off. Lauren DeStefano riskdreampeople The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me. Lauren DeStefano husbandgirlboys I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all. Lauren DeStefano humanitybeautifulthinking A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. Lauren DeStefano imaginestrangesaid Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound. Lauren DeStefano weaponsloverslove-is Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. Lauren DeStefano aliveshould-havegone To die trying would be better than to die without purpose. Lauren DeStefano purposewould-betrying I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing. Lauren DeStefano horribleunderstandingthinking I wonder what it’s like for her, looking so much like a dead girl. Lauren DeStefano girlwonder Even things that aren't broken can be fixed. Lauren DeStefano fixedbroken There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering. Lauren DeStefano offeringgivingbelieve 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 mothersummerbook and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said. Lauren DeStefano love-yousongpast So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear. Lauren DeStefano taughtwanted Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. Lauren DeStefano moralityedges Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us. Lauren DeStefano starsskythinking I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds. Lauren DeStefano would-befeelingsclouds I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep. Lauren DeStefano atlasgabrielthinking There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all. Lauren DeStefano girlbodyworld Give me time" "For you, always. Lauren DeStefano give-megiving
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