Top 500 Lauren Roberts Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “So bow at my feet with a sneer, if you must. I won’t see it with your face to the ground.”

— Lauren Roberts

102. “If I had a single rational thought left, it vanishes when I lay eyes on him. If there is a God, this man is certainly proof that He has His favorites.”

— Lauren Roberts

103. “Falling is not what I do. No, I trip into love, unable to slow down long enough to question these feelings or the person I’ve dumped them.”

— Lauren Roberts

104. “I smirk. ‘I knew you thought I was pretty.”

— Lauren Roberts

105. “Seeing her enjoy life makes surviving mine suddenly worth it.”

— Lauren Roberts

106. “I spin her if only to give myself some time to think. I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important. Not until I looked into a pair of ocean-blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing.”

— Lauren Roberts

107. “The people want to send you back into your own Trials.”

— Lauren Roberts

108. “And I’m the problem. The exception with a target on my back. The king is persuasive – I’ll give him that. His bribes are very tempting to a resident of the slums, but I can’t abandon the lower class, not when no one else will help with the sickness that spreads through the streets like wildfire. “So the slums are where I will stay. The king will not buy my support.”

— Lauren Roberts

109. “I’m tripping into you, Mak.” His thumb brushes across my cheek. “Tripping into me?” I nod, breath shaky. “I don’t fall for someone. I trip uncontrollably toward them before inevitably hitting the ground.”

— Lauren Roberts

110. “The stars are flirtatious things, always winking down in the darkness. But they make for good company, surrounding me with their countless constellations.”

— Lauren Roberts

111. “I wonder if I’ll be able to watch over her when I get to wherever Death is taking me.”

— Lauren Roberts

112. “She’s intimidatingly peaceful – a contradiction in itself. And I almost want to despise her for it. Because I fear there is a chance that I may begin to enjoy her.”

— Lauren Roberts

113. “As tempting as it is to watch you stare at me all night,” his voice is a caress, lulling me to sleep with a single sentence, “sleep, Pae.” I manage to give him a groggy grin before asking, “Are you going to sleep?” “Oh, darling, I’m already dreaming.”

— Lauren Roberts

114. “If you die, I’m going to kill you.”

— Lauren Roberts

115. “Only, it does not matter that every beat of my heart belongs to her. Because she does not belong to me.”

— Lauren Roberts

116. “It was the most real thing anyone’s ever said in those interviews.”

— Lauren Roberts

117. “King and queen. Shadow and Flame. Poet and muse.”

— Lauren Roberts

118. “Only now can I see what it was he brought with him into the sewer. A chain jangles around his neck, practically choking him. I pull it off, not giving it another thought as I toss it aside to continue pulling him up, inch by inch.”

— Lauren Roberts

119. “He tastes like a secret I wish to scream, a word on the tip of my tongue that will never be mine to utter. So I say his name instead, as if I could claim him so easily. As if I’m not thinking of three damning words when I say it. I love you.”

— Lauren Roberts

120. “He makes me happy, for whatever absurdly odd reason. He’s not exactly a ray of sunshine, but perhaps something equivalent to moonlight. Mysterious and unnerving. Equally as beautiful, yet, soft enough to stare at.”

— Lauren Roberts

121. “We hold each other, strangers connected by a mutual love.”

— Lauren Roberts

122. “I falter at the sight of my fingers. Twisted and broken and useless. The pain is paralyzing.”

— Lauren Roberts

123. “But, today, I am no one. Today, I simply get to be with who should have been.”

— Lauren Roberts

124. “She’s counting the stars. I break. All of me. Every inch of my being shattering at the realization.”

— Lauren Roberts

125. “I hope they know how admired they are up there,” she murmurs. “I mean, I count them before bed every night.” I shake my head at the sight of her admiring something far duller than she.”

— Lauren Roberts

126. “He wants to know when I shared that intimate detail of myself. And if it was while I was meant to hate her.”

— Lauren Roberts

127. “You brought me food.” I cross my arms over my chest. “And how do you know that’s not for me?” “There are blueberries on the porridge, Azer.”

— Lauren Roberts

128. “His dark lashes flutter, gray eyes flicking between mine as he says, “Remind me to make you smile like that again, when you aren’t dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorize it.”

— Lauren Roberts

129. “Tell me, darling, do you think of me often?” His voice is a murmur, as if his lips were pressed against my ear. I shiver, knowing exactly what that feels like. If he knows I’m here then why hasn’t he – “Do I haunt your dreams, plague your thoughts, like you do mine?”

— Lauren Roberts

130. “It should have been me. I wish it was me.”

— Lauren Roberts

131. “Because every time you don’t, it only proves that you don’t want to.”

— Lauren Roberts

132. “Where is the healing salve?” His expression is blank. “Gone.” I try to blink away my confusion, to no avail. “You used all of it on me?” “Without hesitation.” Cool, calm, collected. That’s Kai.”

— Lauren Roberts

133. “My pretty Pae. Look what you have done to me.”

— Lauren Roberts

134. “He holds my gaze, looking so hurt, so horrified, so full of hatred. His eyes are so cold that I nearly shiver under his stare. The boy glaring down at me is devoid of every bit of warmth, every bit of charm I’ve come to know. He is cold. He is callous. He is like this because of me. He is his father.”

— Lauren Roberts

135. “The Deliverer of Death, they call him.”

— Lauren Roberts

136. “I love when you threaten to kill me, do you know that?” “Oh? And why is that?” The corner of his mouth twitches up. “Because every time you don’t, it only proves that you don’t want to.”

— Lauren Roberts

137. “Damn the pretending. Damn the hiding. Damn everything but him and us and this moment where I need him.”

— Lauren Roberts

138. “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice – well, you won’t get a chance to do that, now will you?”

— Lauren Roberts

139. “Every girl deserves something equally as pretty and deadly as they are,” I said, urging her to take the knife.”

— Lauren Roberts

140. “Even monsters can have morals.”

— Lauren Roberts

141. “Up, Gray.” “Make me, Azer.”

— Lauren Roberts

142. “You are to be my bride.”

— Lauren Roberts

143. “I tug her close, hold her tight. She knows exactly what she’s doing. My name means nothing to me until she speaks it. Nothing until she claims it as her own.”

— Lauren Roberts

144. “Speaking of ass, how’s the view back there, Gray?”

— Lauren Roberts

145. “She rolls her eyes. “Sympathy doesn’t look good on you, Azer.” “Everything looks good on me, Gray.” I flash her a smile. “Don’t lie.”

— Lauren Roberts

146. “Living without you is only bearable when I know you’re out there living too.”

— Lauren Roberts

147. “Her head is crushing my arm. And I fear I’d never move again if it meant she stayed beside me.”

— Lauren Roberts

148. “Her fingers clutch a collection of twining stems. Above, poppies’ red petals bleed into pink roses while the deep blue of dainty forget-me-nots weaves between.”

— Lauren Roberts

149. “I was with you” She smiles softly, “How could that have been a waste of time?”

— Lauren Roberts

150. “Kai.” Her voice is delicate enough to refocus my fragile mind. “You’re not him,” she whispers again, tears pricking those beautiful blue eyes. “I need you to know that. For me.”

— Lauren Roberts