Top 80 Laura Sebastian Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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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52. “Today is done, the time has come for little birds to fly. Tomorrow is near, the time is here for old crows to die.”

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53. “I stand, alone. If I am to survive, I must be strong enough to live up to it.”

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54. “I spent much of my first six years afraid of my mother’s throne the way most children are afraid of monsters lurking under their beds.”

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55. “The wise ones know that there is much to fear in the world; it’s the foolish who claim that nothing frightens them because they don’t have the foresight to know what to be afraid of until it’s too late.”

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56. “Not to worry, I was saving stupid for tomorrow, or maybe next week. I haven’t decided yet.”

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57. “I hear congratulations are in order, Father, on your nuptials,” he says with a grim smile before turning his attention to Cress. “And you, Lady Crescentia, have my deepest condolences.”

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58. “I didn’t want to live in fear that I would make a misstep and bring my entire life to ruin. I didn’t want to live where people whispered about me behind my back and made jokes at my expense. I wanted a home, not a lonely tower where I felt more ghost than human.”

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59. “It doesn’t seem fair to me to treat rapists, murderers, and slavers the same way as the farmers or the shipmates or the seamstresses-the people who benefited from bad acts, yes, who went along with them, but didn’t actively commit crimes.”

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60. “I survived for so long by not trusting anyone. It was a necessary lesson to learn, and I wouldn’t be alive today if I hadn’t learned it, but now I don’t think that I can make it to the end of this war without trust.”

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61. “I would never doom thousands of innocent people to die for my country.”

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62. “What you are is a monster,” she tells me, biting out the words with more ferocity than I thought she possessed. Despite myself, I flinch. “I’m a queen,” I correct.”

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63. “I’m here because I want to be. Because you are lightning– terrifying and beautiful and dangerous and bright all at once. And I wouldn’t wish you were anything else.”

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64. “Some wounds you don’t want to heal all the way. Some wounds, you want to leave a scar.”

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65. “Memory is such a fallible thing.”

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66. “Some advice, little lamb? Next time you close a window, make sure it doesn’t open a trapdoor beneath your feet.”

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67. “My name is Theodosia Eirene Houzzara, Queen of Astrea, and I will endure this.”

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68. “Morgana doesn’t gasp. She doesn’t make any sound at all. Her eyes locked on mine the entire time, a single tear tracing its way down her cheek.”

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69. “When the world turns on its head and I’m not sure of anything, I’m sure of you. No matter where we are or who we fight against, I am always fighting for you.”

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70. “I’ve always thought that belief in something lends a kind of truth to it. In this case, we may never have a sure answer, so belief is the only truth we have.”

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71. “I wanted it more than I could put into words: a place where I belonged.”

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72. “The smallest seeds can grow the greatest trees, with enough care and time.”

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73. “You made yourself the villain so that Arthur could remain a hero.”

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74. “Cuando todo lo que queda de tu pasado son cenizas, debes buscar muy dentro de ti para encontrar la llama que puede devolverte la fuerza”.”

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75. “All it takes is one seed, my love,” she told me. “One sprout to push through the earth, to dig its roots deep and wide. If I have to plant a million seeds to find that one, that’s exactly what I’ll do.”

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76. “But that’s the trouble with ifs. Once they start, there is no stopping them.”

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77. “You were not raised to be safe. You were raised to be heroes.”

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78. “All I can do is put one foot ahead of the other, one hand in front of the other, and climb. Everything else is out of my control. In a way, there is freedom in knowing that.”

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79. “I should not be calm, but I am. There is one path ahead of me now, and I can see it clearly it. It is an awful path, one I hate. I will never forgive myself for walking down it. I will not come out the other side of this the same But it is the only path I can take.”

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80. “I give a dramatic huff and watch Tyrannius exchange pleasantries with King Etristo. “It’s awfully rude of everyone to try to use me to their own ends when I’m trying to do precisely that to them.”

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81. “Everything I am, I’ve made myself. Maybe you have all shaped me, molded me like a vase, but when all is said and done, when everyone has chipped away their pieces, I will not break.”

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82. “I believe that if the gods could interfere they would, but maybe that’s beyond their reach. Maybe, instead, they can give us what we need to succeed on our own.”

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83. “Freedom is close enough to touch. I can walk away and never look back. But as soon as I think it, I know it isn’t true.”

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84. “These are unprecedented times, Theo,” she says. “If one does not adapt and move with them, all one can do is drown.”

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85. “I am both infantilised and sexualised, and I’m not sure what to do with that.”

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86. “I wonder what will be left of you,” she muses, “when all the people you love have chipped away their pieces.”

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87. “You’ve trained for this, my doves. You know who to strike. You know where they are vulnerable.”

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88. “He looks at me like I’m his favorite book, one he’s read every page of too many times. One whose secrets he’s uncovered but he keeps coming back for more anyway.”

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