Top 30 Lauren James Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Will you marry me, Katherine? I want us to spend this life and the next together.”

— Lauren James

2. “This voyage was never meant to be easy. It was meant to be important.”

— Lauren James

3. “There’s no finish line you need to cross to have lived a worthy life, Lowrie. You don’t need to achieve anything if you don’t want to.”

— Lauren James

4. “I don’t think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.”

— Lauren James

5. “We live in the quiet at the end of the world. The slow winding-down clockwork motions before life stops completely. Time is slipping through our fingers.”

— Lauren James

6. “I love you. In every life, I love you. I love you so much.”

— Lauren James

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7. “It’s hard to focus on the future when the past is so distracting.”

— Lauren James

8. “Is no life at all better than the constant fear and fight for survival I face every day? I don’t know. If a life of fear isn’t worth living, then why should I carry on? It’s not possible to be more afraid than I am right now.”

— Lauren James

9. “Just remember, J, you’re coping with everything the best way you can, and that’s all that matters. Don’t ever think you aren’t strong.”

— Lauren James

10. “No species has ever survived by trying to cling to what’s gone. You can’t exist if you’re trying to get back to an environment or culture or climate that’s changed. You have to adapt if you want to keep going.”

— Lauren James

11. “But who cares if my name goes down in history, if no one remembers who I really am?”

— Lauren James

12. “When you know that there’s no future, the only thing that’s interesting any more is the past.”

— Lauren James

13. “Matthew hereby declares that Katherine Galloway is retroactively responsible for all embarrassing and painful incidents that have occurred in his life to date. Including, but not limited to, that time he broke his own nose with a tennis racket in eighth grade. KATHERINE’S FAULT.”

— Lauren James

14. “Our secrets aren’t really so secret, if you know where to look.”

— Lauren James

15. “He started a brief staring contest, which was apparently his new method of persuading her to agree to his point of view without the hassle of actually yelling.”

— Lauren James

16. “I just want someone who holds on. Someone who won’t ever let me go, whatever tries to tear us apart. Is that too much to ask?”

— Lauren James

17. “I can remember thinking I’d been turned inside out. Kind of like the first time I saw you.”

— Lauren James

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18. “I’ve got the half-real fear that creeps up on you in the middle of the night, making you think that there is a monster in your room.”

— Lauren James

19. “The only thing really valuable to us any more is the element of surprise.”

— Lauren James

20. “Are you absolutely certain this is safe?” Matthew Galloway asked, peering suspiciously out over the lake.”

— Lauren James

21. “I think about the legacy we’re leaving behind all the time: pollution and plastic and buildings and everything else. As one of the last humans, my choices and decisions are imbued with the full weight of the billions of lives that came before me. It feels like my ancestors are watching me, waiting to see how I ensure their legacy, how I remember them.”

— Lauren James

22. “I am utterly convinced of the truth of my argument, beyond a shadow of a doubt. But I’m not trying to persuade you. I have no vested interest in influencing your opinion either way. Only you can decide, based on the evidence I’m presenting, what you believe in your heart to be true.”

— Lauren James

23. “A pencil. A PENCIL,” he said, with growing horror, staring into empty space as if at the horrific vision she had laid before him. He shook his head. “Some people just want society to collapse.”

— Lauren James

24. “This domain name has been seized as a part of a law enforcement operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defence Criminal Investigative Service, Cyber Field Office and European law enforcement agencies acting throughout Europe, Serbia, Australia, and Canada, in cooperation with Europol.”

— Lauren James

25. “Phosphenes, they were called – the sparks of colour that lit up your vision, the stars that appeared in the darkness.”

— Lauren James

26. “There’s something I never told you about the night I was hiding in Rob’s office on 23rd September. I wasn’t going to say anything, but I don’t think I have a choice anymore.”

— Lauren James

27. “Whatever happens, I can’t see a point in time when I will ever be happy. For the rest of my life, I’ll be struggling. I’m always going to be moments away from sinking completely. So why should I live at all? It would be so easy to stop. But it would be so pointless. Every year I’ve fought to survive would be wasted.”

— Lauren James

28. “Everything just makes more sense if you look at it backwards.”

— Lauren James

29. “It doesn’t do any good to mourn for someone who is gone. They don’t care. Their story has finished.”

— Lauren James

30. “Things on Earth I want to experience most: Quicksand – how often do you usually get stuck in this stuff? A few times a month? It seems to happen all the time in films!”

— Lauren James

31. “There are so many places on the ship that I avoid because I’m afraid of facing the past. But the past is much less scary than the future. I know what’s already happened; I know how bad it was. I don’t know what’s coming, though.”

— Lauren James

32. “All throughout history they had been doing this, finding and loving each other and being ripped apart before they even had a chance to live.”

— Lauren James