Top 250 Laura Thalassa Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Once upon a time we were innocent, and then we were not.”

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202. “I’m many things, and the least impressive of them is lovely.”

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203. “I was really close to death, wasn’t I?” I ask, referring to when Pestilence dragged my already injured body down the highway. “Must you talk?” So pleasant, this one. “Must you spread plague?”

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204. “Loss,” he says. He’s quiet for a moment. “It’s one of the most common aspects of war, and yet I’ve never experienced it.” “You better hope you never do,” I say, thinking of my family all over again. 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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205. “I twist to face him, pressing the blanket close to me. It has racecars printed all over it. A little boy’s blanket, sacrificed so that I’d be warm. Sometimes, it’s the little details that cut the deepest.”

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206. “I think I know who the Thief of Souls is. Karnon.”

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207. “What other well-kept secrets of the universe do you know?” “Hmmm,” I pretend to ponder this. “Wednesday is the most underrated day of the week. Hot baths can take away just about any ailment. Phlegm is the most horrible word in existence – not moist, like my mother insists. The world is worth saving, and I want to call you by something other than Pestilence because, despite what you say, names do matter.”

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208. “The truth is that I’m a connoisseur of addictions, and this is one of my favorite.”

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209. “If I didn’t think you were the devil, I’d say you’d be able to seduce even him.”

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210. “You were made from the earth,” I whisper to her skin, “I can feel the universe moving through you, and yet you are something else unto yourself.”

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211. “And naturally, I see a whopping three stars in the sky – and one of them might be a plane.”

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212. “When it comes to grief, words have no balm strong enough to soothe the soul.”

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213. “She grabs the Bargainer’s lapels. “Where are they?” Mara growls. She shakes him like a madwoman, the floral scent of her power filling the air “Desmond Flynn, where are they?” “What are you talking about?” he says, his voice low. “You know damn well what I’m talking about. I swear to the Undying Gods I will do everything in my power to break our vow of peace if you don’t tell me where my harem is.”

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214. “Des’s voice drops low, so that only I can hear it. “Have I told you how easy it was to kill Karnon? His bones broke like twigs, his body burst like overripe fruit.” Des smiles, the action cruel. “Ending him was the easiest thing to do in the world.”

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215. “I don’t understand why, but I want to be close to you, I want to hold you when you say you are cold.”

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216. “Fine,” he rasps. “I’ll help you at” – more teeth gnashing and another raking gaze which pauses on the tear on my cheek – “no cost.” He practically chokes on the words.”

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217. “Suddenly, I hear a voice like thunder, speaking words I don’t recognize but still understand. “Jinsoi mohirsitmon dumu mo mohirsitum!” You cross God when you cross me! I would recognize that voice if I heard it in hell itself. War.”

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218. “Having the Bargainer’s full attention is like catching a tiger’s eye. All you wanted to do was pet the creature, but as soon as it turns its gaze on you, you realize it’s simply going to tear you apart.”

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219. “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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220. “Your kind has not been made wrong,” War says cryptically, “but you have all collectively chosen wrong.”

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221. “Someone hurt my monster.”

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222. “Weird is just a euphemism for an emotion I can’t actually put a name on.”

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223. “I would steal the stars from the sky for you,” he whispers into my ear. “Anything to hear you laugh like that.”

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224. “I don’t tear my eyes from his when I say, “I’m thinking that you’d give the devil a run for his money. In fact, he’s probably worried that you’ll set your sights on his territory next.” The corner of Monte’s mouth lifts. “A good idea, Serenity. Perhaps I could consult you on hell’s layout. I hear you’re familiar with it.”

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225. “It’s always been you Gabrielle, even before you existed. And long after our bodies have turned to dust it will still be you. It will always, always be you.”

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226. “It’s quite easy to control people once you understand them.”

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227. “I swear to the Undying Gods that once I’m able to, I will scour the earth for my soulmate. I’ll put my past behind me and focus on the future. And when I find her – if I find her – I won’t waste time fearing what others will think. I’ll cherish her, respect her, love her. For all the days of her mortal life, I’ll claim her as mine.”

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228. “I will say this for the fae – they may be heartless sons-of-bitches, but they have seriously good taste in fashion.”

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229. “I came to conquer this land and its people, but instead, one of its people conquered me.”

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230. “Ah, America,” Pestilence says with distaste, dragging me back to the present. “Here they are made particularly mean.”

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231. “Why are you telling me this?” I say softly. His stares into my eyes. “I am the scariest thing out here. And if anything tries to touch you, they will reckon with me.”

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232. “You’re wrong if you think that angers me.” His smile is menacing. “Everything you are has been made for me.”

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233. “Please give me my balls back at the end of the evening.”

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

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235. “I’ll cherish her, respect her, love her. For all the days of her mortal life, I’ll claim her as mine.”

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236. “Everything that lives must eventually die.”

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237. “For better or for worse, I’d chosen him. And I still don’t regret it.”

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238. “He has yet to realize that you don’t have to cut someone to make them bleed. Take away the most precious thing they have, and they will suffer.”

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239. “People like us are not victims. We’re someone’s nightmare.”

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240. “A fairy doesn’t show his wings to his betrothed.” He slides his hand behind my neck, his thumb stroking my skin. “A fairy shows them to his soulmate.”

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241. “When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all.”

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242. “What’s a naked man doing in your bed? I thought we had a code for these kinds of things.”

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243. “No, the douchelord simply closed the distance between us and plunged a syringe into my neck.”

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244. “Suffering is meant for the living.”

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245. “It’s a hurt so vast I can’t see any end to it. I could fit entire galaxies into the space it’s carved out for itself inside me.”

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246. “I stare at each one of their faces, and this is the moment where we all realize that the boy they thought I was, was a mirage. That this entire time they’ve been the field mice and I’ve been the viper lying in the grass.”

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247. “Let our enemies come.”

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248. “It would be easier to explain sight to the blind,” Pestilence says. “It can’t be understood by description alone; it must be experienced.”

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249. “All religions want the same thing-salvation. We’re all the same.”

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250. “The kiss has only barely begun when it goes from sweet to wild and desperate. He’s my oxygen and I haven’t been able to breathe for months.”

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