Lauren DeStefano Quotes

• A feeling can’t kill you.

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• In another time, in another place, I wonder who they might have been.

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• Sometimes we don’t know how afraid we are until we’ve reached a strange door and we don’t know what will be on the other side.

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• I don’t know if it was love or an illusion. I don’t know if there’s ever a way to be certain.

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• There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

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• We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions.

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• My head is my favorite swimming pool.

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• It’s never right to give up on someone.

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• Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he’s turned it into hate.

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• I’ve done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

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• Real is a dirty word in this place.

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• The world seems so clean if you only looked up.

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• Love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

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• The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed.

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• You’ve been captive for so long that you don’t even realize you want freedom anymore.

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• Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

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• Everyone should remember being born. It doesn’t seem fair that we only remember dying.

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• I’ll tell you something about true love. There’s no science to it. It’s as natural as the sky.

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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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• 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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Lauren DeStefano (42)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Writer

About

DeStefano was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and has an English degree from Albertus Magnus College. Her first book, Wither, a dystopian young adult novel, was published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster.

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