Lauren DeStefano Quotes

Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.

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

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

This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

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.

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

They're making me go to school," Pram said. "I don't think it's a very good idea. I've read about how cruel kids can be.""Are you afraid they'll be cruel, or that being around them for too long will make you cruel?" Felix said."Both, I suppose.

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.

The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

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

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.

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