Lauren DeStefano, Sever Quotes

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

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.

A feeling can't kill you.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.

He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.

This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that gets washed by the ocean.

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.