I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon. Lauren DeStefano More Quotes by Lauren DeStefano More Quotes From Lauren DeStefano Humans are the absolute worst thing to happen to this planet. Lauren DeStefano planets worst humans Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is. Lauren DeStefano maybe-love dangerous love-is Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen. Lauren DeStefano twists classic world Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere. Lauren DeStefano home mean There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it. Lauren DeStefano return calling dark It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me. Lauren DeStefano writing teacher ideas 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 angry like-you ifs There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her. Lauren DeStefano bothered promise world I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving. Lauren DeStefano littles book Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known. Lauren DeStefano known forget thinking I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us? Lauren DeStefano skins weight want She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family. Lauren DeStefano murder loyal beautiful 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. Lauren DeStefano eye forever fall Love is not enough to keep any of us alive. Lauren DeStefano alive enough love-is 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 waiting add looks Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying. Lauren DeStefano born dying remember He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him. Lauren DeStefano sky long fall Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. “Rhine Ashby,” he says. “My wife. Lauren DeStefano wife taken hands What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know. Lauren DeStefano given-up given done Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs. Lauren DeStefano being-free missing laughing