Top 180 Lauren DeStefano Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There’s a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.”

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52. “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.”

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53. “Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can’t let things fall apart without trying. We can’t let go of the people we love.”

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54. “There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.”

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55. “You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything’s going to be okay. I can’t imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.”

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56. “I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.”

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57. “Every moment is a gift, from the frivolous to the dire. The taste of sweetgold, and the rough paper of our favorite books. I find a god in these things- which god I cannot say, but I’m grateful to it.”

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58. “I do question everything. But I want to have my questions. I want to have more thoughts than my mind can hold, so many that I have to write them in fragments like a madman.”

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59. “Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it’s butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts.”

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

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61. “I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, ‘What has the free world got that you can’t get here?’ Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.”

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62. “Gabriel’s voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane.”

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63. “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?”

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64. “As a teen I was totally that dumpy overweight nerdy girl that nobody wants to be in the stories you’re told. And now I am a dumpy overweight nerdy adult and life is beautiful like a song. I’m not a flower that bloomed in the mud. Just a girl who stayed steady on the path of determination.”

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65. “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.”

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66. “There’s a hazy smile on her lips that won’t go away, and her hair is a mess. It’s like a brushfire filled with casualties.”

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67. “It’s quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; “We could talk now. We’re alone out here. No walls.” “There are always walls.” I say.”

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68. “Even the human race can’t claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.”

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69. “She’s beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren’t responsible for the murder of her family.”

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

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71. “I have seen my father concede to utter defeat in the hospital room. I’ve heard him choke on sobs and whisper angry things to the god of the sky when he thought I was asleep at Lex’s bedside. I know that those uniforms are worn by men – only men.”

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72. “Whenever there’s something I don’t like about a stranger, I try to imagine that someone out there loves them, and it puts them in a different light.”

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73. “I can hear my brother’s voice in my head. Your problem is that you’re too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?”

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74. “Her mind is a bird that’s trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.”

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75. “Fate, I think, is a thief.”

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76. “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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77. “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.”

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78. “There are lots of love stories here,” she says. “They either end happily, or everyone dies.” She laughs, but it sound more like a sob. “What else is there, right?”

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

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80. “Everything in the universe was thought to be magic once, before we came to understand it. We thought the stars were magic, but they aren’t, are they? They’re just hydrogen and helium and light traveling through space.”

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81. “When someone you care about is suffering, you don’t care if the whole world burns down around them, or they’re covered in scars, or blind. You just want them back. And you’ll accept whatever conditions come along with it” -Morgan.”

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82. “So many girls allow themselves to be bleeding idiots because that’s what’s expected of them. Dress like a girl. Walk like one. Eat like one. Desire the things a girl should desire, and nothing more – but how can that be called desire, if it’s dictated.”

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83. “He looks at me, and I don’t know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she’s not here with us now, in this room. It’s just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us.”

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84. “As I go, I hear her screaming my name, in a brutal, bloody way, like she’s being murdered, which maybe she is. But slowly. It will take her six years to die.”

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85. “A girl should never stop thinking.”

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86. “For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it’s twenty. We are all dropping like flies.”

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87. “Absorbing water from the clouds would make more sense than believing our lakes are a gift from the sky god. But when presented with the evidence, I see how much more terrifying it is to think we’re on our own.”

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88. “She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions.”

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89. “It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.”

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90. “I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.”

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91. “There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.”

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92. “The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an atmosphere of stars.”

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93. “So many of the things I’ve wanted are the things I’ve been taught to fear.”

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94. “This is my story. These things are my past, and I will not allow them to be washed away. I will find a way to have them back.”

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95. “I’ve recently begun to believe that love is synonymous with madness. It can’t possibly be an act of sanity. It is restless and always in pursuit. It will fall from the sky to have what it wants.”

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96. “Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don’t question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power.”

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97. “A girl should never stop thinking,” she says. “Otherwise we’ll become what our world thinks of us.”

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98. “Things will get worse before they get better. A little more agony before the fever will break.”

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99. “We accept gods that don’t speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It’s easier than accepting that there’s nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.”

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100. “It’s the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.”

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