Top 80 Laura Sebastian Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive.”

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2. “Hope is contagious. When you have enough it spreads naturally.”

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3. “May you always do the right thing, even when it’s hard.”

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4. “It only makes the voice in my head grow louder. And when the voice grows loud enough to push past my lips, the Kaiser grows angry.”

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5. “I’m always alone. I should be used to it by now, though I don’t think it’s the kind of thing a person ever grows used to.”

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6. “Because that’s how water works. The river flows, pushing against a stone, even as it knows it won’t move it. It doesn’t have to. Enough currents go by, over enough time, and even the strongest stone gives in. It might take a lifetime or more, but water doesn’t give up.”

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7. “A queen without a crown, without a throne, without a coronation. What, exactly, do you imagine you’re queen of?”

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8. “My thoughts are growing bolder now, and though I know they are dangerous, I can no longer quiet them. And for the first time, I don’t want to.”

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9. “As women, we must have our weapons in this world, whether they’re our minds or our fists or our wiles or our tears.”

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10. “We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them,” she says quietly, eyes never leaving mine. “Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”

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11. “Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”

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12. “Because I am not all right. I am a hurricane barely contained in skin.”

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13. “I thought of you as Lady Smoke.”

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14. “My mother was known as the Fire Queen, regal and strong. But I am the Ash Princess, a living joke.”

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15. “Impossible. The word ruffles me and I ignore it.”

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16. “It’s safer to live only in the present, to be a girl with no past to yearn for and no future to have ripped away.”

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17. “The hope inside me is not smothered yet. It is dying, yes, with only a few embers left. But I’ve seen fires rekindled with less.”

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18. “You’re a lamb in the lion’s den, child. You’re surviving. Isn’t that enough?”

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19. “There’s no shame in breaking... You just have to put yourself back together again.”

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20. “It may be that I was a fool to trust Cress, not because of who she is but because of how she was raised. This is the only world she knows, and though it’s a nightmare to me, it’s a world she is at home in. I suppose it’s easy to be at home in a world where you are on top. It’s easy not to notice those whose backs you stand on to stay there. One doesn’t even see them.”

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21. “I’m proud of you, my Phiren. You may be just brave – and just foolish – enough to triumph.”

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22. “Theodosia, Ampelio called me. It’s a strong name – the one my mother gave me. It’s the name of a queen. It doesn’t feel like a name I deserve, but here I stand, alone. If I am to survive, I must be strong enough to live up to it.”

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23. “If everyone put aside their selfishness, the Kalovaxians could be stamped out as easily as an ant under a boot heel, with minimal effort or risk. But there’s no money in that, so no one bothers.”

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24. “I died the Queen of Peace, and peace died with me,” she says after a moment. “But you are the Queen of Flame and Fury, Theodosia, and you will set their world on fire.”

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25. “My body remembers – even when the rest of me forgets – that I am not made for curtsying.”

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26. “Time is immeasurable, an unending expanse where an hour could just as easily be a second which could be a week, and I would have no way of knowing. It is both infinite and infinitesimal at once.”

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27. “People will believe anything if it makes them think they have more control than they do in this world.”

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28. “Everything is the same, even though I am not.”

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29. “I thought we were past his martyr phase.”

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30. “There’s no shame in reaching your limits, Theo,” he says, using a small gust of air to invigorate the weak fire into a full blaze. “It means you’ve given something your all.”

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31. “Talking about him feels like rubbing at a raw wound, but I don’t know how to stop. Some wounds you don’t want to heal all the way. Some wounds you want to leave a scar.”

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32. “May the gods bless Queen Eirene forever in the After, but until the end, she was the queen of a peaceful country. Her reign was largely untested and easy; she never had to know war until the Kalovaxians came and slit her throat. She had the luxury of being a sympathetic queen. You don’t.”

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33. “Still, there is something to be said for someone seeing your darkest parts and accepting you anyway.”

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34. “The thought almost sends me running back for my bed, but I know it’s only a slower death that awaits me there. I have to make a choice. I have to trust myself.”

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35. “I’ve seen enough to know that hate is something learned, not something inherent. I saw it firsthand in Cress, in how she treated me when we were children and how she treated me once her father and her world convinced her that I was less than her.”

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36. “Is it better to have your life ended by someone who hates you or someone who loves you?”

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37. “Your judgment is flawed.”

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38. “He has already taken everything, my mother, Ampellio, my home. And now, I have nothing left to lose. And now, I have nothing left to fear.”

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39. “There is no pleasing everyone without losing yourself.”

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40. “The Kaiser should have killed me when he had the chance.”

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41. “Avec du temps, avec des soin, la plus petite des graines peut donner le plus imposant des arbres.”

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42. “If there is a step after anger, I haven’t yet found it.”

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43. “No,” Heron says. “I mean you’re blind – you aren’t dead. You want to help, you want to save your people, then do it. You don’t have to lead an army to do that.”

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44. “Thora is so much simpler. She is a hollow thing with no past no future. No desires. No anger. Only fear. Only obedience.”

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45. “You are different and it terrifies them, so they try to push you down and keep you small and manageable. They know that if they keep you huddling in your corner, you will never stand to your full height. They know that if you ever do, you’ll be great enough to ruin them.”

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46. “He is a stone, incapable of feeling anything, and I don’t like being reminded that he’s also human. I don’t like to be reminded that we love the same person.”

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47. “I remember how my mother had no shame in crying when it was necessary. She never saw it as a weakness; rather, she believed it a strength to bear one’s soul.”

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48. “There’s no grace to battle, no need for style. You only need to move faster and hit harder than your opponents. Dueling is more like a dance – you respect your partner, you understand them. It’s as much a chess match as a physical sport.”

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49. “There’s no shame in breaking,” I tell him. “Gods know I did often enough. You just have to put yourself back together again.”

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50. “Heartbreak isn’t as lethal as the name implies, you know. Maybe it feels that way at the time, but I swear it isn’t. You’ve seen Gwen and me both rebound from it eventually. I don’t regret anything leading up to it, and I doubt Gwen does either. It’s life, Elaine. Getting hurt, picking yourself up, trying again. You’re so focused on the ending sometimes that I don’t think you know how to appreciate the during.”

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