#rhine

Love is not enough to keep any of us alive. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#love

There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage--a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#rhine #dreams

And it only seems fitting that, in this moment of illusion, the words just come out of me. "I love you, too. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#love

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. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#fall-apart #letting-go #linden #love #rhine

We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#rhine-dystopian #sever #change

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine. ↗

— William Arthur Sirmon

#france #germany #historical-romance #history #inspirational

Give me time" "For you, always. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#linden #rhine #death