Top 500 Lauren Roberts Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I want to earn your forgiveness. Your trust.”

— Lauren Roberts

202. “He swallows. “I thought you might not walk through those doors tonight. And it made me realize that I’d much rather spend the rest of my life apart from you, watching at a distance, than without you.”

— Lauren Roberts

203. “So very vicious, that one.”

— Lauren Roberts

204. “Dammit, the minute you threw a dagger at my head, I knew I was done for. There was no longer a before you, only what I wanted with you.”

— Lauren Roberts

205. “So imagine,” he says casually, “what I would be more than happy to do to you if you ever lay another finger on her.”

— Lauren Roberts

206. “It truly is a curse to feel so deeply, to so daringly deem someone worthy of my affection.”

— Lauren Roberts

207. “Sun and sand and her bloody, broken body in my lap suddenly flash before my eyes.”

— Lauren Roberts

208. “How are you enjoying peace?” Kitt sweeps his green gaze over the expanse of darkness. “I’m still lonely.” “You didn’t have to be,” Mara spits. “This is your own doing.”

— Lauren Roberts

209. “The most powerful man paired with the most powerless woman. “It would be an honor to be your partner, Kitt,” I say softly, smiling slightly. Play the part. Kitt chuckles, sounding relieved. “I was hoping you would say that, Paedyn.”

— Lauren Roberts

210. “You don’t want me to beg for you first?” he drawls.”

— Lauren Roberts

211. “Kai’s chest shudders against me as tears leak from his eyes, same as mine.”

— Lauren Roberts

212. “I have Death all to myself.”

— Lauren Roberts

213. “Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a pair of sky-blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing.”

— Lauren Roberts

214. “Kai is not who I’m marrying.” “But he wishes you were.”

— Lauren Roberts

215. “I’ll be forced to spend my days at her service but never at her side. In her shadow but never truly seen. In love with a girl I’d have bowed to long before she became my queen.”

— Lauren Roberts

216. “You’re not supposed to touch me at all.” “But you could command me to,” I drawl. “Then I’d simply be following an order.”

— Lauren Roberts

217. “So be my weakness, then.”

— Lauren Roberts

218. “In the end, it was all light and dark, loud and soft. I knew nothing but the memory of those I loved. One, a friend. The other, unfinished. And that alone is what I took with me into the next life. But I watched, warm and bright and high above. Just as he promised.”

— Lauren Roberts

219. “Our mouths crash together.”

— Lauren Roberts

220. “What did you think we were going to do? Hide for the rest of our lives beneath the willow tree?”

— Lauren Roberts

221. “Where are you going?” The door swings open. “To find them.”

— Lauren Roberts

222. “I thought I’d known torment until it wrapped around her finger.”

— Lauren Roberts

223. “I wonder how often the Enforcer kneels before anything. Anyone. “You’re afraid of me.” He meets my statement with a stare, steady but drawn out like a sigh. “I’d be a fool not to fear something so fierce.”

— Lauren Roberts

224. “Our lives seem to share sad similarities, unfortunate fates. Both our childhoods consisted of training to become what we had to be, neither of us growing up the way we wished. Except, the fathers who raised us couldn’t be more different – one doing everything out of love, the other out of greed.”

— Lauren Roberts

225. “My gaze lifts to the top of the stone steps where the Enforcer scrutinizes the scene below him. King. Queen. Dead body.”

— Lauren Roberts

226. “Death is rather blunt. Sensitivity is hardly in her job description.”

— Lauren Roberts

227. “Yes, well, you’ll find that I often ask questions that I shouldn’t,” I say, looking away from him. “Don’t stop,” he says quickly, quietly.”

— Lauren Roberts

228. “Open your eyes, dammit!” Tired. I’m so very tired. Far, far away, I hear a male voice muttering panicked words. “If you die, I’m going to kill you.”

— Lauren Roberts

229. “She smiles, and I catch the glint of sharp canines.”

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230. “I blame her for it. Blame her for cracking my carefully crafted mask, shattering it to pieces when she is around.”

— Lauren Roberts

231. “I’m hot and cold, yes and no, right and wrong.”

— Lauren Roberts

232. “Paedyn, I love you. Like nothing else before, I love you.”

— Lauren Roberts

233. “Adena’s smile could rival the sun over the Scorches desert.”

— Lauren Roberts

234. “I’m sure. Now, did you bring anything else back?” He inches closer, making her giggle. “Maybe some new freckles?”

— Lauren Roberts

235. “Honey. That’s what I tell myself. It’s just honey.”

— Lauren Roberts

236. “I pull away just far enough to pant, “Have you really counted my freckles?” “All twenty-eight of them,” he breathes before kissing me hard. “Though, you might have more now from the sun.” Another quick kiss. “I’ll have to do a recount.”

— Lauren Roberts

237. “Five years ago, it was her father who was my first kill.”

— Lauren Roberts

238. “Where he is a prince, the future Enforcer, the son of the man I hate, I am a Slummer, an Ordinary, the embodiment of the thing he has been taught to hate.”

— Lauren Roberts

239. “They will happily sit back and watch her die, smile if she meets the death they think she deserves. But I will only survive this life if she does.”

— Lauren Roberts

240. “After that, we’ll ensure the ring finds its way back onto the correct finger.”

— Lauren Roberts

241. “Impress me today, darling,” he had whispered, kneeling before me.”

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242. “It’s hard to believe that something so beautiful would willingly stare at the likes of me. I feel undeserving of her gaze, of the way her eyes roam over my face.”

— Lauren Roberts

243. “I forgot to dodge.”

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244. “Love each other for me.”

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245. “He’s looking at me like one would a painting – drinking in every detail, delighting in its originality, deeming it a work of art.”

— Lauren Roberts

246. “This kiss is deep and anything but tender. It is betrayal. It is bitterness. And nothing has ever tasted so sweet. It is ruin.”

— Lauren Roberts

247. “People aren’t born strong; they’re made that way.”

— Lauren Roberts

248. “I’m paralyzed in his arms, powerless in his hold that once felt so safe. His chest rises and falls against me, a feeling that was once so familiar. Now it is foreign. Frightening.”

— Lauren Roberts

249. “That tether between us grows taut, heavy with the weight of so many unspoken words. But even the strongest of ties wear over time. It will be the slow death of us, spending every day alongside each other but never truly together.”

— Lauren Roberts

250. “Every dark lash lining those silver eyes. Every twitch of his too-familiar lips. Every lock of ebony hair falling in waves atop a tanned brow. Every piece of him perfectly in place, exactly how I’d left him.”

— Lauren Roberts