9 Quotes by Lauren DeStefano about poetic
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Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.
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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.
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Felix had left his heart buried in the ground years ago, but he felt it crack apart.
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He was now working his way through the many shades of grief. Sadness made everything gray, he'd learned, but there were different types of gray, some darker than others. There were dark spots in his memories he wasn't brave enough to enter.
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The clouds took on the shape of dancers; from somewhere far off, Pram heard music before the clouds became normal again.
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Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.
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She was a drawing that hadn't been colored.
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They are paper cutouts rather than people, Pram thought. They are shadows with black dots for eyes and grim lines for mouths. They almost resemble the dead, but not quite.
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She wished that when her heart was beating double, she could give one of those hearts to him and then press her ear to his chest and feel it beating.
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