Top 180 Lauren Kate Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You will wake up at forty with no husband, no children, and no career if you don’t learn to engage with the world.”

— Lauren Kate

102. “And she knew without opening her eyes that it was Daniel. No other body in the universe fit hers so well.”

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103. “Cam’s wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. “Holy Hell,” Callie whispered, blinking.“More or less,” Arriane said.”

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104. “Luce: But I thought you said I should stay away from the hard cases. Arriane: Rule number two – don’t listen to me!”

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105. “But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.”

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106. “Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?”

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107. “He dipped her low and kissed her fiercely, as if he were angry, and each time his lips left hers, even just for half a second, the most parching thirst ran through her, making her cry out.”

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108. “Cam stepped into the clearing. His eyes were rimmed with a thick, shimmering gold shadow, and it shone on his face in the moonlight, making him look like a wildcat.”

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109. “There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so obvious to him. Which made her absolutely furious.”

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110. “They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things – like talking – everything got so complicated.”

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111. “Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.”

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112. “Oh that moment when Daniel thought he’d lost her to Cam’s starshot! His wings hat felt too heavy to lift. Colder than death. In that instant, he’d given up all hope.”

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113. “People are here because they’ve got baggage. I’m talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-’cause-it’s-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?”

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114. “Even Lucifer looked impressed. He muttered, “Only Lucinda could pull that off.”

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115. “Do I need to ease up on the psychedelics, or did LP just recall one of her past lives unprompted at the most crucial juncture ever?”

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116. “Daniel had ruined that couple’s life. Killed their daughter. All because he’d been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.”

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117. “If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires.”

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118. “Ms. Sophia was evil bananas.”

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119. “Get to part B, Daniel. Think fast. Patience is a virtue, and you know how Cam feels about those.”

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120. “Daniel’s face – the way it had been bathed in violet light when he’d carried her home this morning – appeared before her eyes. His gleaming golden hair. His tender, knowing eyes. The way one touch of his lips transported her far away from any darkness. For him, she’d suffer all of this, and more.”

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121. “Letting go of someone you loved wasn’t hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn’t let them go they were still gone.”

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122. “Don’t cry. Carry what you love about me with you; leave the pain behind.”

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123. “Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.”

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124. “Fear is the only way to greet the devil.”

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125. “The starlight, which seemed strangely bright tonight, wasn’t starlight at all. Instead, Lucifer’s demons had gathered high in the firmament above. It was their eyes that shone like stars through the wildfire smoke.”

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126. “Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you’ve never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.”

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127. “You’re the human equivalent of a migraine.”

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128. “Lilith blinked, making out what looked like a dark cave at sunset, the sky fiery with streaks of red and orange.”

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129. “We all carry pieces of our journeys within us,” Roland said. “We all learn from our mistakes. Who’s to say we don’t deserve happiness?”

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130. “Maybe that’s what magic was – looking into darkness and seeing a light most people missed.”

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131. “Yeah she celebrated Christmas, she’d been to church a handful of times, and even when her life made her and everyone around her miserable, she still had faith that there was someone or something up their worth believing in. That had always been enough for her.”

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132. “Nothing is real. There is only what we believe in and what we reject.”

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133. “Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her.”

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134. “You see, this is the problem with conversation,” Solon said with a sigh, and looked at Ander. “All we ever do is talk about ourselves. Let us stop before we bore each other, well, to tears.”

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135. “No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.”

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136. “Sometimes when you try not to repeat your mistakes, you forget that the original mistakes are still unfolding.”

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137. “Not belonging is the greatest gift. Always remember that.”

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138. “There’s more to life than teenage passion.”

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139. “Don’t turn your back on what you love because you’re scared.”

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140. “We’re screwed,” Arriane said, kicking a cloud in frustration. She glared at its wispy tendrils, which ambled eastward, unaffected. “That’s never as satisfying as I think it’s going to be.”

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141. “Before Cam, music had been an escape, passion, a daydream, love, an impossibility.”

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142. “Scared ya, did I? Aw, that’s sweet. Don’t worry the shocks won’t kill me,” she whispered. “They only make me stronger. Anyway, it was worth it to give that cow a black eye, ya know?”

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143. “There is great power in words. The universe flows out of them. Use them now, please. The universe awaits.”

— Lauren Kate

144. “Rule number 2 – don’t listen to me!” Arriane laughed, “I’m certifiably insane!”

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145. “She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.”

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146. “He still loved her – and every moment that he didn’t have her hurt him deeply. That was why he’d spent the past nine days with a shadow of her soul, why he’d sought to reset the entire universe to have her back.”

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147. “She is not a game to me.” “And that is exactly why you will lose.”

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148. “Things are precious when they’re hard to come by.”

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149. “His popcorn exploded with truffle oil and shaved Parmesan, or chopped pretzels and chewy flecks of caramel. Today’s batch smelled like curry and toasted almonds.”

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150. “What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved.”

— Lauren Kate