Top 180 Lauren Kate Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Don’t turn your back on what you love because you’re scared.”

— Lauren Kate

152. “Suffering is wisdom’s school teacher.”

— Lauren Kate

153. “Mortals can face many things, but they cannot face their true identity.”

— Lauren Kate

154. “He told Eureka the only heat to use when you loved a sauce is the softest simmer.”

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155. “She was luminous. Her red hair had been braided a dozen ways, all swirled together in a high shaggy twist. Her eyelids were shimmering green, her lips crimson and matte. She wore black vintage ankle-high motorcycle boots. She was lethal.”

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

— Lauren Kate

157. “How could it be? For weeks he’d run himself ragged, his only goal to keep her safe until the moment when he could no longer offer her protection. Now that moment had come and gone- and so did Luce.”

— Lauren Kate

158. “A nothing that was everything.”

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159. “Everyone here felt like they were on the brink of something, when in fact they were only on the brink of the end.”

— Lauren Kate

160. “We often seek the companionship of others who display aspects we’ve repressed to the depths of our shadow.”

— Lauren Kate

161. “She knew what was coming next. The most beautiful sound there was – that elegant whoosh of the love of her life.”

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162. “Love makes people the best versions of themselves.”

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163. “Sus cuerpos estaban hechos de la misma sustancia que el firmamento. No eran de carne y hueso, sino de materia divina, de luz. Eran fuertes, indestructibles, bellos.”

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164. “His hands grasped her waist and lifted her until she could have sworn that his feet had come off the ground, too; that they were floating up above the creek, above the trees, above the burning hillside, into the dense tangle of stars, about to kiss the moon.”

— Lauren Kate

165. “Free will.” Cam shrugged. “It’s all the rage these days.”

— Lauren Kate

166. “You have no idea how many strong and impossible things you are capable of.”

— Lauren Kate

167. “Well, now that we’ve knocked over one another’s books, isn’t the next step for our hands to accidentally touch while we’re picking them up?”

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168. “There were no monsters, her parents assured her, but Luce’s repeated insistence on the presence of something wobbly and dark had gotten her several appointments with the family eye doctor, and then glasses, and then appointments with the ear doctor after she made the mistake of describing.”

— Lauren Kate

169. “If the hero does not match the story, it is the hero, not the story, who must be rewritten.”

— Lauren Kate

170. “Each of us has magic within us. We take our quirks from the universal store.”

— Lauren Kate

171. “Mortals could rarely recognize their true feelings before those true feelings hit them in the face.”

— Lauren Kate

172. “Eureka didn’t voice her perverse enjoyment at dressing as an object with a second life when it was dead.”

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173. “Beneath his exhaustion, he radiated a serenity that suggested nothing in this place could touch him. Maybe nothing in this world could touch him. It was one of the most beautiful things she’d ever seen. She wanted to be that way, too: at peace with herself, autonomous, free.”

— Lauren Kate

174. “Daniel took Luce’s hands in his. He closed his eyes, inhaled, and let his massive white wings unfurl. Fully extended, they would have filled the entire kitchen, but Daniel reined them in, close to his body. They shimmered and glowed and looked altogether too beautiful. Luce reached out and touched them with both hands. Warm and satin smooth on the outside, but inside, full of power. She could feel it coursing through Daniel, into her. She felt so close to him, understood him completely – As If they had become one.”

— Lauren Kate

175. “He kissed her with a new brand of abandon. His touch was smooth and soft and desperate all at once. Her mouth bore down on his as he squeezed her, lifting her on top of him, burying his free hand in her hair. Their limbs overlapped, taut with expectation. Their mouths were hot and tangled. Luce felt dizzy and alive, as if their souls had twined together. It was almost too much to bear. She could never get enough. But she would try.”

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176. “And heaven wept to see the sins of her children.”

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177. “The sight of his face made her want to run away and straight to him, to see how intense those blue eyes could get.”

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178. “A fallen angel,” Cam corrected her. “And I’m yours.”

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179. “Take my love with you when you go.”

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180. “What’s wrong?” Cam asked. Everything, she wanted to say. The only thing Lilith had ever known was disappointment. Nothing in her life ever worked out. Which, for the most part, was okay, because she never let herself expect anything, so she never really cared.”

— Lauren Kate

181. “The victors rewrite history.”

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182. “It is impossible to apologize to a girl with such a conveniently selective memory.”

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183. “The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.”

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184. “She liked the way he smelled – kind of free and open, like driving with the windows down at night.”

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185. “She could argue with the wall in China and win.”

— Lauren Kate