Wanting to be happy is not stupid.
Lauren DeStefano, Fever.
“Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.”
“I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.”
“Trust is the strongest weapon.”
“Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.”
“It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.”
“Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.”
“The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, be...”
“He walks the soft grass, wet with fresh rain, jeans slung low on his hips and shirt hanging open, still dripping from the fevered maelstrom that set fire to the night sky. Fury in his step and pass...”
“If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.”
“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”
“I feel like Ive been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”
“Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.”