110+ Lauren DeStefano Quotes On Education, Religion And Imaginative

Lauren DeStefano is an American author of young adult fiction. She is best known for her dystopian trilogy The Chemical Garden and the fantasy series The Internment Chronicles. She has also written several stand-alone novels, including Wither, Fever, and Perfect Ruin. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lauren DeStefano on education, leadership, love.

Top 10 Lauren DeStefano Quotes

1. Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
2. Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.
3. Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
4. There's a hazy smile on her lips that won't go away, and her hair is a mess. It's like a brushfire filled with casualties.
5. ‎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.
6. Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.
7. Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
8. I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?
9. The madness of youth made me unafraid.
10. There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

Lauren DeStefano Short Quotes

• Things will get worse before they get better.
• There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.
• I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.
• I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
• I don’t have too many books, I have too little shelving.
• I wonder what it’s like for her, looking so much like a dead girl.
• Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.
• Every star has been set in the sky. We mistakenly think they were put there for us.
• It's never right to give up on someone.
• So many of the things I've wanted are the things I've been taught to fear.

Lauren DeStefano Quotes About Love

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. — Lauren DeStefano

I've loved you since the day I stole the atlas for you," Gabriel says, because he thinks I'm asleep. — Lauren DeStefano

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

Maybe it is desperation. Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love. — Lauren DeStefano

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound. — Lauren DeStefano

I don't know if it was love or an illusion. I don't know if there's ever a way to be certain. — Lauren DeStefano

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

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

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

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive. — Lauren DeStefano

Lauren DeStefano Quotes About Imaginative

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue. — Lauren DeStefano

You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours. — Lauren DeStefano

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. — Lauren DeStefano

My worries always lead to dungeons; I can't imagine a worse thing than to be imprisoned for the rest of one's life, especially with so few years to enjoy what little there is. — Lauren DeStefano

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

Lauren DeStefano Quotes About Thoughtful

Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep. — Lauren DeStefano

Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have. — Lauren DeStefano

Bet you never eat, he says. Bet you drink up the oxygen like it's butter. Bet you can go for days on nothing but thoughts. — Lauren DeStefano

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. — Lauren DeStefano

But instead of tears, when I press my face against the pillow, a horrible, primal scream comes out of me. It's unlike anything I thought myself capable of. Rage, unlike anything I've ever known. — Lauren DeStefano

Lauren DeStefano Famous Quotes And Sayings

It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in. — Lauren DeStefano

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

Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are a grid of seconds; even our pulses oblige. No succeeding king can hope to hold this kind of power. — Lauren DeStefano

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

I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood. — Lauren DeStefano

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. — Lauren DeStefano

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes. — Lauren DeStefano

In the distance I see a lighthouse. The light washes over us and continues on its rotation. This time, I don't know where the light will guide us. — Lauren DeStefano

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. — Lauren DeStefano

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls. — Lauren DeStefano

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality. — Lauren DeStefano

She has the majesty of hurricanes and explosions. — Lauren DeStefano

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book. — Lauren DeStefano

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved. — Lauren DeStefano

He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins. — Lauren DeStefano

Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying. — Lauren DeStefano

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side. — Lauren DeStefano

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

I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets. — Lauren DeStefano

On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling. Yet here we are. — Lauren DeStefano

And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here. — Lauren DeStefano

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

A party in the orange grove. The pain on Linden's face is immediate. I am unwavering. He has cost me more pain than I will ever be able to repay. — Lauren DeStefano

There's nothing here to say good-bye to. There's no dancing girl. No mischievous smile. She's gone, off with her sisters, broken free, escaped. And if she were here now, she would say, "Go. — Lauren DeStefano

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. — Lauren DeStefano

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

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. — Lauren DeStefano

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

Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage. — Lauren DeStefano

Gabriel's voice can reach me anywhere. Even in a hurricane. — Lauren DeStefano

I miss something I never even had. — Lauren DeStefano

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

I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run. — Lauren DeStefano

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift. — Lauren DeStefano

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point. — Lauren DeStefano

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere. — Lauren DeStefano

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me. — Lauren DeStefano

Before I can process what’s happening, Deirdre has opened her hands and Linden has taken the ring from her and slipped it onto my finger. “Rhine Ashby,” he says. “My wife. — Lauren DeStefano

Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children? — Lauren DeStefano

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am. — Lauren DeStefano

Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing. — Lauren DeStefano

Fate, I think, is a thief. — Lauren DeStefano

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it. — Lauren DeStefano

The trick was looking past the illusion, because the exit was never as far away as it seemed. — Lauren DeStefano

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

I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay. — Lauren DeStefano

Tell freedom I said hello.' 'If I happen to see it, I will. — Lauren DeStefano

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

Real’ is a dirty word in this place. — Lauren DeStefano

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? — Lauren DeStefano

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

The months fall to shards at my feet. — Lauren DeStefano

To die trying would be better than to die without purpose. — Lauren DeStefano

Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is. — Lauren DeStefano

The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose. — Lauren DeStefano

Forget who you are and what you think is there, and you'll discover things that don't exist to be known. — Lauren DeStefano

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive. — Lauren DeStefano

We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions — Lauren DeStefano

I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds. — 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. — Lauren DeStefano

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. — Lauren DeStefano

Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't. — Lauren DeStefano

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite. — Lauren DeStefano

Give me time" "For you, always. — Lauren DeStefano

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. — Lauren DeStefano

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

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here. — Lauren DeStefano

There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering. — Lauren DeStefano

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs. — Lauren DeStefano

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." Pg 225 — Lauren DeStefano

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom. — Lauren DeStefano

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway. — Lauren DeStefano

He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now, in this room. It's just him and me, and the books. I feel like our lives are in those books. I feel like all the words on the pages are for us. — Lauren DeStefano

The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me. — Lauren DeStefano

My sisters were in that van. — Lauren DeStefano

Even things that aren't broken can be fixed. — Lauren DeStefano

She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family. — Lauren DeStefano

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

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. — Lauren DeStefano

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

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

Life Lessons by Lauren DeStefano

1. Lauren DeStefano's work emphasizes the importance of resilience and self-discovery, showing that even in the face of adversity, it is possible to find strength and hope.
2. Her stories also emphasize the importance of family and community, and how those connections can help us through difficult times.
3. Finally, her work emphasizes the power of storytelling, and how it can help us to make sense of our lives and the world around us.