Top 250 Laura Thalassa Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Yeah, well, if you want to be my sugar daddy,” she said, “you’re going to have to get me clothes, books, my own personal TV – ” “So you can break it just like the last one?” I asked incredulously. “If I wish to, yes. And I want it to have HBO, because that channel’s got all the good shows. And I want movies, and make-up, and shoes, and bags, and – ” “Woman, you are giving me a headache,” I said. “My name is not ’woman.”

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52. “All those evenings she watched me leave her, those are the illusion. Because the truth is, I have searched worlds for her, looked for her for centuries. I’ve held her a thousand times in my dreams, and I have died a thousand times upon waking.”

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53. “The phobos rider turns more fully to face me. “Husband and wife pitted against one another – now that’s the true war.” He backs away. “I’m interested to see who will win.”

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54. “I don’t like being teased, manipulated. I like doing the teasing and the manipulating.”

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55. “He’s a trickster, a secret-keeper. He’s the dark side of the moon. He’s my beautiful, terrible mystery. My friend. My soulmate. From flame to ashes, dawn to dusk – until darkness dies. He’s mine, and I’m his, always.”

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56. “It doesn’t change the fact that seeing you butt-ass naked is not on my shortlist of things to do during the apocalypse.”

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57. “I can’t tell which is the worse fate – to question everything, to be paralyzed by indecision, or to question nothing and move through the world blind to any other way of existing save for your own.”

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58. “My wife and her soft heart,” War says. It sounds like a genuine compliment.”

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59. “You are painfully human. Your bones want to break, your skin wants to bleed, your heart wants to stop. And for the first time ever, I am desperate for none of those things to happen. I have never known true fear until now.”

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60. “Life and death are lovers, kismet,” he whispers, shifting my hips to align us. “We are lovers. It has always been this way. It will always be this way.”

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61. “Famine stands at the threshold, his armor on and his scythe in hand, looking all sorts of agitated. So, essentially, same as always.”

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62. “Everything that lives must eventually die.”

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63. “Attraction and chemistry don’t follow any logical rules. You’re not the prettiest girl I’ve ever met, nor the smartest, nor the funniest. But you are the girl I’ve altered a peace treaty for, and you are the girl I’m spending the evening with.”

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64. “He takes my hand and presses it against his chest. Beneath my palm I feel his heartbeat racing. My eyes move from his chest to his face. “It does that whenever I’m around you,” he says.”

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65. “Her body is so small for such a force of nature. Sometimes I forget that. She takes up such a big part of my world.”

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66. “That’s another type of loneliness – when your deepest truths are locked away and no one but you can hear them.”

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67. “The heartless king has found his heart after all. It rests beneath my rib cage.”

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68. “The night,” he repeats, his thumb stroking the skin of my stomach through the fabric of my dress. “That is precisely why people take my kingdom for granted. No one sees the darkness, and yet it’s everywhere. We are surrounded by an entire universe of it. It came before us, it will live on long after us. Even the stars might form and then die, but the darkness will always be there.”

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69. “I am a thing made of lace and blood. Swathed in silk and dripping with the dark deeds of men.”

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70. “He sees it all. Hears it all,” another boys adds. Ten points to Slytherin for the creepy answer.”

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71. “That was my first lesson in war: everyone loses, even the victors.”

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72. “There was a bang as someone tried to open our locked door. Leanne and I grabbed each other. “Bitches, let me in!” Oliver. I let out a shaky breath, got up, and unlocked the door. He pushed his way in before enveloping me in a hug. “Stop almost dying on me beautiful.” When he pulled away, I saw his eyes we red rimmed. “Aw, Oliver,” I hugged him back, “I’m pretty tough to kill.”

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73. “Rather than making lemonade out of lemons, I’m pretty much cutting open those lemons and squeezing them into my eyes.”

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74. “What’ve you done to me?” I whisper, searching his face. I set out to destroy this man, not to protect him. “The same thing you have done to me, I imagine,” Pestilence says, brushing a lock of my hair aside. “You want your people to live, but you’re unwilling for me to be harmed. I want your people to die, but I cannot harm you. Each of us is trapped between our minds and our hearts.”

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75. “I didn’t fall for Des because he was handsome, or because he knew my secrets, but because he stuck around when I was least lovable. Because he was a man who didn’t try to take anything from me even when I lay next to him, but instead gave me peace and comfort. Because each one of those nights he saved me all over again, even if it was from myself.”

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76. “You have managed what no one else has: you have awoken my heart. So, no, Sara, of all the words I’d use to describe you, fascinating would definitely be one of them.”

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77. “C’mon, it’ll be fun,” I say, grabbing his hand and tugging him towards a little area along the canal where several gondolas wait. Behind me the Bargainer says, “I’ll only agree to this if you do me one favor – ” Me do him a favor? “Yeah, anything.” “Please give me my balls back at the end of the evening.” Present.”

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78. “I am alive. Alive in a way I haven’t been in decades. To think I lived without this for so long. Unfathomable.”

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79. “Could’ve, would’ve, should’ve. It does no use getting upset about it now.”

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80. “How many more things have I yet to discover about her? There’s an entire world contained beneath that skin of hers, and I hunger to explore it all.”

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81. “He looks heavenward, like he’s trying to find both God and his patience in the rafters.”

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82. “His grip tightens. “Don’t tempt me, human.” “And stop calling me human!” I add, heatedly. “I have a name!” “One I only like to use when I’m overly-fond of you, which I’m not right now.”

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83. “That has my breath catching as I stare up at him. We are lovers and old friends and strangers all at once.”

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84. “You foolish little flower, don’t you know?” he scolds me. “I kill everything. If you leave my side, you will die.” I push uselessly at his shoulders. “Then let me die, damn you!” “No.”

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85. “I’m sorry,” I say, “your ponytail is very masculine. I feel like I’m going to grow a beard just looking at it” “Mouthy.”

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86. “Had I known I was going to face down death today, I totally would’ve bought myself the Slurpee.”

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87. “Your kind has not been made wrong,” War says cryptically, “but you have all collectively chosen wrong.” I’m trying to follow War’s words and how they tie into judgment, but I don’t really know what he’s trying to say. That human nature itself is fine, we just turned evil somewhere along the way? And now he has to punish us for it? “And so we’re all to die?” I say. “You’re being called home.” What he means is that humankind is being swept up into God’s trashcan like bad leftovers.”

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88. “The light from the setting sun shines through the windows, making his hair glitter like spun gold. My heart squeezes the same way it did when I saw pictures of the Sistine Chapel. A beauty so staggering it makes you feel physically close to God.”

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89. “I know all about broken things. I came from a broken house, and a broken land full of broken people. I have a broken soul and a broken heart. This man doesn’t know it, but all his cracks align with mine.”

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90. “Bargainer, I would like to make a deal.”

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91. “I stare into the king’s eyes. I am Isolde, I am Juliet, I am Guinevere. I am every one of those idiots because I’ve fallen for the king.”

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92. “Loss is a wound that never heals. Never never never. It scabs over, and for a time you can almost forget it’s there, but then something – a smell, a sound, a memory – will split that wound right open, and you’ll be reminded again that you’re not whole. That you’ll never fully be whole again.”

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93. “Secrets are like currency. The more you have, the more powerful you are.”

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94. “I couldn’t stay away, I could barely resist you at all, but I didn’t want to push you into something. Not when you’d just escaped a man that took and took. I didn’t want you to think that was all men were good for.”

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95. “One of the fireflies tumbles off, landing on my scarf. It then proceeds to crawl beneath my scarf and down my shirt. “Oh my God!” I squeal. “Naughty bugs,” Des chastises, coming over and helping me scoop the firefly up, “stay away from the pretty human boobs.” Did he just call my boobs pretty?”

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96. “A warrior king. And my lady parts were having trouble enough around him as it was. I’m now officially a lost cause.”

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97. “All creatures can experience pestilence, famine, and death – but war, true war, that is a singularly human experience.”

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98. “A finger dips into me, and my mind goes utterly blank. He slips in another finger and I let out a low moan. “That’s it, Callie.” “Des.” I need more. Far more. He removes his fingers and, while I’m watching, he licks them one by one. That is so filthy. And Lord help me, I’m aroused by it. He lets out a groan. “Better than my imagination.” He hitches one of my legs over his shoulder, then the other, opening me to him. It’s all so very indecent. The Bargainer’s eyes move from my core, to my eyes.”

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99. “So don’t act like you invented pain. It’s an insult to the rest of us.”

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100. “God didn’t send me a wife,” he says under his breath. “He sent me my reckoning.”

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