Top 500 Lauren Roberts Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “I admire the rose and its thorns. Even the prettiest things can bite.”

— Lauren Roberts

102. “Oh, but you are my undoing. My deliverance. My downfall disguised as a deity.” Another slow step. “You are my ruin.”

— Lauren Roberts

103. “We both know it will take more than a locked door to keep me from you.”

— Lauren Roberts

104. “I don’t want to fight your power – I want to fight you. Just you.”

— Lauren Roberts

105. “She draws a circle above the king’s thumping heart as she says it, just as she has so many times before.”

— Lauren Roberts

106. “She has me, and Kitt hates it.”

— Lauren Roberts

107. “A small body tumbles from the maze of crop to scurry toward us. That shock of gray hair blows around her face, obscuring the excitement displayed there. With a large ear of corn gripped between tiny fingers, she runs into her father’s awaiting arms.”

— Lauren Roberts

108. “I’ve survived too much to die by desert.”

— Lauren Roberts

109. “I want you closer.”

— Lauren Roberts

110. “I lied,” Kai mutters close to the man’s face. “You’ll be lucky if I let you keep your head, let alone your hand for laying a finger on her.”

— Lauren Roberts

111. “He’s coming for me.”

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112. “I’ll count until I’m up in the sky beside her.”

— Lauren Roberts

113. “Thanks for picking the closest star, Dena.”

— Lauren Roberts

114. “My eyes are puffy, face splotchy, but he looks at me with a reverence reserved for religion.”

— Lauren Roberts

115. “Mama always did say I was much too eager for my own good. My impatience ensures that I won’t gradually fall for someone. Instead, I lose my balance, tripping until I face-plant into inevitable failure.”

— Lauren Roberts

116. “His mouth hovers dangerously close to my own. Especially so considering the distraction I’m seeking – and every inch of him will most definitely do the trick. I want him desperately. Recklessly. And the embodiment of those feelings falls from my lips in the form of a single, traitorous sentence. “So slip it off.”

— Lauren Roberts

117. “Shh.” I run a hand down the length of her curls, feeling a hiccup jostle her body. “You did the right thing. Run to me. Always run to me.”

— Lauren Roberts

118. “Impress me, darling.”

— Lauren Roberts

119. “Well, you’re not exactly the most encouraging person to be tied up with.” “Under different circumstances,” he pants, “I promise you I’m much more fun tied up.”

— Lauren Roberts

120. “If only death had any regard for promises.”

— Lauren Roberts

121. “My life is not my own. And, for that reason, she can never be mine.”

— Lauren Roberts

122. “I was tired. Tired of trying to be something I wasn’t while no one knew what I was.”

— Lauren Roberts

123. “Now, please entertain me, darling. I’m bored. What am I to do if not count your freckles? Your Cocky Bastard.”

— Lauren Roberts

124. “Are you going to sleep?” “Oh, darling, I’m already dreaming.”

— Lauren Roberts

125. “You know,’ I mutter, examining the bite closely, ‘I’m beginning to think that you enjoy getting hurt, if only so you can have my hands all over you.’ He lets out a low laugh. I can practically feel his gaze gliding over me as he says, ‘Oh, I’m not making you do anything, darling. You can leave me to bleed out if you must. Because I only want your hands all over me if you want them to be.”

— Lauren Roberts

126. “Today, Paedyn’s Trial will consist of retrieving her crown from the crypt she is buried in.”

— Lauren Roberts

127. “Why did I ever think I could have her, ever think she would have me? Because beasts don’t get the beauty.”

— Lauren Roberts

128. “I ignore the dull ache in my chest. This is precisely what I feared – myself. Adena’s light within me sputters out.”

— Lauren Roberts

129. “Sometimes I’m envious that you were the one to kill my father.”

— Lauren Roberts

130. “Kai. It’s Kai. I’m okay. I don’t have to hurt him. His fingers are warm beneath my chin as he guides my face to his. I blink slowly, taking in his crinkled brow and icy eyes. “You’re done, okay? You did it.” He tucks a strand of hair behind my ear, more gently than I deserve. “I wish I could have done it for you. My soul is already stained enough for the both of us.”

— Lauren Roberts

131. “In my search for comfort, it is him I crawl back to. Peace is the place he resides, and passion is a word I only understand when I look into his eyes. He is the freedom I cannot grasp. We are inevitable. We are tragedy.”

— Lauren Roberts

132. “Maybe Father would like this version of me.”

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133. “He only kept one of each and now has a Wielder who happens to be a son he can control.’ She studies me as though I’m one of her rows of stitches. ‘You two seem oddly similar. In more ways than just ability.”

— Lauren Roberts

134. “She holds herself with a certain confidence that tells me there once was a time when she did not.”

— Lauren Roberts

135. “His dark sleeves are sloppily rolled to his elbow, displaying muscled arms.”

— Lauren Roberts

136. “You cannot be nothing when you are everything to someone else.”

— Lauren Roberts

137. “A forget-me-not, since you always seem to be forgetting who I am.”

— Lauren Roberts

138. “She is an intoxicating sort of exhausting, like running until you’ve lost your breath but enjoying the feeling all the while. And I feel as though I’ve been sprinting for days. Even worse, I fear that I am, in fact, beginning to enjoy her. What a terrifying realization, to admit one’s admiration for another.”

— Lauren Roberts

139. “I never wanted this. Never wanted to be what I am today. But monsters are made, not born. And I had no choice in the matter. I have no choice in the matter.”

— Lauren Roberts

140. “Like the beginning of the end.”

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141. “She is a vision, something so ethereal in this moment that I may just believe there is a God. She is the closest thing to a deity.”

— Lauren Roberts

142. “I’m too selfish to let you go so easily.” “Then pretend.”

— Lauren Roberts

143. “I shouldn’t stay here. What I should do is turn, wish him goodnight, and head back to my room without another word. And yet, my feet make no move to carry me away from him.”

— Lauren Roberts

144. “What a terrifying realization, to admit one’s admiration for another.”

— Lauren Roberts

145. “Seeing that you’re the future Enforcer, I wasn’t sure if you were capable of showing mercy. Clearly, you are.”

— Lauren Roberts

146. “Out here I am Kai and nothing more.” His throat bobs. “Out here I am powerless. A monster without an ability to hide behind. An Enforcer free from his masks. A man shouting his love for a woman.”

— Lauren Roberts

147. “At the end of a blade, I would love you. Until it pierced my throat, I would say ‘yes’ to you.” The tear that slips down his cheek coaxes one from my own eye. Kai’s voice is rough with emotion as he murmurs, “You’re quite the poet, darling.”

— Lauren Roberts

148. “Everything about him is lethal. That smile. Those eyes. That cunning mind of his.”

— Lauren Roberts

149. “I could,” he murmurs. “So easily, I could.” His thumb slides over my knuckles. “The problem wouldn’t be taking that ring off. It would be getting me to put it back on.”

— Lauren Roberts

150. “He looks to be guarding the sticky bun with his life.”

— Lauren Roberts