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Lauren DeStefano

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

life, monsters, people

Lauren DeStefano

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

inspirational-attitude

Lauren DeStefano

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

Lauren DeStefano

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that’s what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

desperation, human-nature, parenting

Lauren DeStefano

I still don’t know where you came from,” he says. “Some days it’s like you just fell from the sky.””Some days I feel like I did.” I say.

Lauren DeStefano

Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.

beautiful, princess, queen, royalty

Lauren DeStefano

She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.

death, memories, poetic, poetic-prose

Lauren DeStefano

It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

girls, hate, world

Lauren DeStefano

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

Lauren DeStefano

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.

believe, existence, existence-of-god

Lauren DeStefano

We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.

dark, sad, tragic

Lauren DeStefano

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

dark, death, sad