Top 50 Laura Steven Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Friendship, for me, was a long game. Something that could not be rushed or fast tracked. My affections were not the quick flint or a forest fire, but rather grew like ivy; a slow creep over many years, difficult to destroy with a barbed comment or a careless joke.”

— Laura Steven

2. “But physics? Physics is my dirty talk. It’s clean and neat, and simple and complex, and it makes perfect sense to me. It’s one of the few things that does. So, if you ever want to lure me into the boudoir, talk Newton to me.”

— Laura Steven

3. “Anger left to run free is like wildfire, indiscriminate in its destruction. But if you learn to tame it, to position it, to take aim with it? Then it becomes a candle. And what is the candle but one of man’s greatest assets? It warms. It nourishes. It shines a light in the darkest of places, and it illuminates the path forward.”

— Laura Steven

4. “As many of the most vile insults usually are, these comments are disguised as concern, like when fat-shamers preach to the obese about their health when really they’re just judgemental reptiles who don’t like to look at stretch marks lest they choke on their meal-replacement shakes.”

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5. “We did this. We pushed her away. But when the only way to bring her back is to round off our edges, to turn down our volume... is that really friendship at all?”

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6. “Time heals all wounds, but not the ones you leave infected.”

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7. “This entitlement has to stop. The world owes you nothing. Girls owe you nothing.”

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8. “Bitches bite back. And men hate that. Society hates that.”

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9. “Her engagement ring has a Dwayne Johnson of a diamond on it...”

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10. “Being a woman attracted to another woman was confusing; a constant game of comparison and lust. You never quite knew whether you were jealous of their body or just jealous of the person who got to touch it.”

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11. “For the second time today, my stone heart melts. I love my friends. The old ones and the new ones. The real ones, who don’t make websites condemning me to an eternity in hell just because I’m not attracted to them.”

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12. “Either way, there was the clear sense that we were no longer just background characters in each other’s lives, passing through the periphery with mutual disdain. Our roots had suddenly and irrevocably knotted together.”

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13. “The real reason they encourage little girls not to fight. So that we won’t know how.”

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14. “Also I was nineteen, and therefore immortal.”

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15. “She was so much like me that it often felt like talking to myself. There was a unique kind of comfort in that.”

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16. “Without you, there would be no poetry.”

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17. “Someone posted a condom stuffed with dog turd through our letterbox this morning. Dumbledore got confused, bless him, and thought it was an exciting new chew toy. And that’s the story of how we’re going to have to get a new couch.”

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18. “And so, in the absence of any abiding religious convictions, this was the one blind faith I had: that love was a physical force, and it was never wasted. Once it was called out into the universe, it would echo back to us forever.”

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19. “Though, without you, there would be no poetry. I would have only the harsh lens of my own worldview. I wouldn’t be able to see the beauty of life, because I only see it through your eyes. Muse is too simple a word for what you are to me.”

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20. “I think I was just born hungry.”

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21. “Ya’aburnee was a favourite. It means ‘may you bury me.’ It’s the idea that one person in a pairing longs to die before the other, because living without them would be too excruciating.”

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22. “Anger was a constant current. It felt fundamental to me as a person; a force of nature I couldn’t live without, like gravity.”

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23. “He wants me to abandon my pain just to alleviate his own. He wants me to do what women have been forced to do for millenia: bury their own hopes and ambitions so the men can chase theirs. And I won’t do it. I won’t.”

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24. “It’s impossible to have bravery without fear. Bravery is picking up the fear and carrying it alongside you, rather than allowing it to block the path.”

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25. “It was the great paradox of my existence – I wanted to be loved, but I also wanted to be left alone. A dichotomy I could never quite reconcile.”

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26. “As a feminist I feel immediately guilty because everyone is trying to encourage girls into STEM subjects now, but to be honest I’m not dedicated enough to the Vagenda to force myself to become a computer programmer.”

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27. “Even when there’s no big joy, even when it feels like we’ll never leave this trench alive, there’s still the small joy: a sunset, a flask of tea, your hand in mine.”

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28. “What a poet I am. Like T S Eliot but with better boobs.”

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29. “I think I understood a long time ago that big joy and small joy are the same. It sounds trite, but it’s true.”

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30. “So maybe it’s not that you want beauty, it’s that you want identity.”

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31. “My heart is a haunted house surrounded by a moat of my own digging, kept empty of warmth so I won’t miss it come winter.”

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32. “Whatever a soul was, it could be carried in a notebook.”

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33. “This is in fact a sly test disguised as an interesting point of conversation. If he doesn’t know what a patronus is, I know immediately that there’s very little point in proceeding with the bench-based festivities.”

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34. “Basically, if you’re a woman, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.”

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35. “We were bright and young and brilliant, alive with glittering promise, and yet we went to such extreme lengths to keep ourselves small. No matter the cost.”

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36. “Alice reminded me of the woods: vast and beautiful and dark, but overgrown with defence mechanisms; thistles and hogweed, poisonous mushrooms and gnarled roots. Talking to her was like grabbing a fistful of nettles.”

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37. “To love was to live, and to live was to die.”

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38. “How thoroughly unreasonable for my actions to have consequences.”

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39. “You’re cute when you babble,” he says to my total horror and disgust, because unlike the popular noughties rock band, cute is never what I aim for.”

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40. “Maybe that’s all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate.”

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41. “Was so mad last night I couldn’t even bring myself to type out the exchange with Mr. Wells. In fact, I’m still so angry I’m just lying in bed in a vague state of furious nausea, like how I imagine Melania feels when she watches Donald remove his shirt.”

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42. “If a hero is someone who will give up love to save the world, then a villain is the reverse. Someone who will give up the world to save love.”

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43. “Unless an old white man can profit from your sexuality, you better hide it, because if it can’t be exploited, it will be punished.”

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44. “How easy modernity had made it to declare love – a funny video shared with a friend, real money sent to virtual coffee funds, a snap of the flowers your grandmother picked from her garden. The everyday tenderness of “I saw this and thought of you.”

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45. “The cruelest fate the gods and stars had ever written: the person I loved most in the world was the person who would ultimately destroy me.”

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46. “You really do just barrel into situations without any regard for your own safety, don’t you?′ She grinned, displaying white, slightly overlapping teeth and the two dimples on her cheeks. ‘I have my murderous goth to protect me.”

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47. “This girl who was soft at heart, who was both the vast, dark woods and the glorious light of a full moon, who was angry at all the thousand tiny ways she’d been hurt in her life.”

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48. “I love you, I have loved you, and I will love you.”

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49. “What if it was my imagination that could open this long-sealed door? And if that key let the terror walk right into my own life, so be it.”

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50. “Life itself should not be a commodity.”

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