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81 " I run into fires, not from them. "
― Lauren DeStefano , The Glass Spare (The Glass Spare, #1)
82 " Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and golds. "Sometimes we can," he says. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3)
83 " My head is my favorite swimming pool. "
― Lauren DeStefano
84 " I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)
85 " And then I wonder, does my brother think of me this way? We entered this world together, one after the other, beats in a pulse. But I will be first to leave it. That's what I've been promised. When we were children, did he dare to imagine an empty space beside him where I then stood giggling, blowing soap bubbles through my fingers? When I die, will he be sorry that he loved me? Sorry that we were twins? Maybe he already is. "
86 " Things will get worse before they get better. A little more agony before the fever will break. "
87 " ...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe its what keeps us together. "
88 " We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become. "
89 " Real’ is a dirty word in this place. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)
90 " Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing. "
91 " Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've left him. "
92 " When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was just as much a prisonor as I was. Where Vaughn imprisoned me with walls, he imprisoned his son with ignorance. "
93 " And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. "I love you, too. "
94 " Love is not enough to keep any of us alive. "
95 " Give me time""For you, always. "
96 " There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own. "
97 " Helplessly I look at him. He will never be just Rowan again. I will never be just Rhine. Everything has been tampered with. "
98 " One afternoon, as Rose lay in a sweaty daze, teetering on the edge of consciousness, she made me swear that I would look after Linden, and I promised I would. I didn't expect to keep that promise, but maybe my,lie will at least do him some good in the meantime. "
99 " Look," Linden says. " Look how beautiful it is.""The sunrise?" I ask."The start of a new day," Linden says. "Being healthy enough to witness it. "
100 " 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. "
― Lauren DeStefano , Perfect Ruin (The Internment Chronicles, #1)