Lauren DeStefano Quotes
Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.
Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.
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.
We didn't make ourselves, " she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.
She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.
Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.
I still don't know where you came from, " he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.
Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.
I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.
Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.
It's best to let her go, " he says.No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.
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.
People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.
Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.