Quote by Lauren DeStefano (Perfect Ruin)

So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

Lauren DeStefano in Internment Chronicles - Perfect Ruin

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Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

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

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"You're insane, you know that?" he says.
"It's the only thing keeping me afloat," I say.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither

Craziness & Weirdness

"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 in Chemical Garden - Fever

Love declerations

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

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither

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

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Fever

Maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Fever

Hope

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

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Sever

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.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Sever

Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.

Lauren DeStefano in Internment Chronicles - Perfect Ruin

Stars

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Fever

"Momentum," She repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run."

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Fever

Flying

Once upon a time there were two parents, two children, and a brick house with lilies in the yard. The parents died, the lilies wilted. One child disappeared. Then the other.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Fever

I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Sever

Fate, I think, is a thief.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither

Fate & Destiny

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

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither

Prisons

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

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Sever

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

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Fever

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.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither

Silence

Eventually I realize that I am holding on to him just as tightly as he holds on to me. And here we are: two small dying things, as the world ends around us like falling autumn leaves.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither

Rhine. The river that, somewhere out there, has broken free.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Wither

Rhine

We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.

Lauren DeStefano in Chemical Garden - Sever

Death

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

Love Valentine's Day

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey

Friendship

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

Stephen King in It

Youth

The FBI is now the prime functionary of the Deep State. The politicized leadership at the very top has turned it into a tool of surveillance and suppression of American citizens.

Kash Patel in Government Gangsters

FBI

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