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181 " They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though something means to strangle the life from them. The sky watches on. The world is filled with anticipation, as if to wonder if this day will be a great day, or a horrible day, or the last day. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Perfect Ruin (The Internment Chronicles, #1)
182 " I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3)
183 " For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
184 " You can’t be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it’s the fear that’ll freeze you in place. "
185 " His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try. "
186 " Perhaps... you love too fiercely. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)
187 " I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room. "
― Lauren DeStefano
188 " He sits next to me, careful to avoid my hair that's splayed out around my head like blood. A bullet to the forehead, boom, blond waves everywhere. "
189 " Write words you’re willing to burn at the stake for. Write words you’d believe in even if the rest of the world didn’t. "
190 " 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. "
191 " Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. "
192 " 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. "
193 " Death itself is no match for you. The day you were born, it shrank away in fear. "
― Lauren DeStefano , The Glass Spare (The Glass Spare, #1)
194 " My sisters were in that van. "
195 " I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all. "
196 " Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. "
197 " and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the way I love my favorite color, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I'd feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way that I've never felt needed to be said. "
198 " 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? "
199 " Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free."He laughs. "
200 " The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be. "