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.
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Lauren DeStefano
Lauren DeStefano is an American young adult author. She is best known for the Chemical Garden series of novels and her gallows humor. 2Biography DeStefano was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and has an English degree from Albertus Magnus College. Her first book, Wither, a dystopian young adult novel, was published in 2011 by Simon & Schuster. Wither is the first book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy, and the second novel, Fever, debuted at No. 6 on the New York Times bestseller list in March 2012. The third and final book, Sever, was released on February 12, 2013. The trilogy achieved No. 10 on the New York Times bestseller list for children's series in March 2013. DeStefano is currently working on a new serie
I always knew I was an excellent liar; I just didn’t know that I had it in me to fool myself.
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.
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.
I miss something I never even had.
I think she’s brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
I miss something I never even had.
The way you moved, this blur of fight and blood and muscle. You just appeared, and the world changed.
He stood in a beam of light, assessing her as though she were something he'd just extracted from the smoke of his cauldron.
Just as there was something in her blood that made her deadly, there was something else that called to him.
If you have a story to tell, tell it. Full stop. Speed up and hit those doubts and fears with your brain car.
The job of an author is to be omniscient. To be in the heads of every character. It's not a task an author can take on alone.
When you write outside your experience, you aren't inviting others into your house. You're inviting yourself into theirs.
Writing is scary. Learning it's wrong is scary. Fixing it is scary. But ignoring these things is failing your readers, your book, and you.
Don't waste time being too proud to tell people what they mean to you, especially when they're family. You don't know when time will run out
Writing is like that old shower at your grandmas house. Either so hot you're on fire or cold like the left kidney of Ebenezer Scrooge.
I love this story I'm writing. It's the star in my sky, the sugar in my tea, the panic in my attacks.
I never understood that game where you choose one person to be stuck on an island with. Defeats the purpose of a perfectly good island.
The only cure for a book hangover is another book that gives you a book hangover.
When people say anxiety isn't real, I wish I could give them mine for 2 seconds. It wouldn't take longer than that.