Lauren DeStefano Quotes

Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!

You know, people are saying, they don't understand, really, what I'm doing.

What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?

Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

[William Butler] Yeats has the phrase Hodos Chameliontos, chameleon-like, in that you don't know where the beginning or the middle or the end is, so it's an unrelieved hallucination, because you don't know where you're coming in and you don't know where you're going out. It ends, you're going into the hallucination, or maybe coming out of it, I don't know.

There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

The more I see, the less I know.

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

Where doubt there truth is - 'tis her shadow.

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.