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41 " I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3)
42 " There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it. "
43 " A feeling can't kill you. "
44 " She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
45 " 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. "
― Lauren DeStefano , A Curious Tale of the In-Between
46 " 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. "
47 " 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. "
48 " They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do. "
49 " But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)
50 " Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it. "
51 " I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again. "
52 " He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean. "
53 " 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. "
54 " 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. "
55 " You aren’t crazy,’ he says. ‘What?’ ‘I’ve known you all your life, and you’ve always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you.’ Those may be the best words he’s ever said to me. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Perfect Ruin (The Internment Chronicles, #1)
56 " There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her. "
57 " Even things that aren't broken can be fixed. "
58 " People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives. "
59 " With free will comes inevitable error and misjudgement "
60 " Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person. "