Top 500 Lauren Roberts Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Everyone loses themselves to something. So make it worthwhile.”

— Lauren Roberts

252. “This is just us.” A hand slides up my back and over my hair. “No titles. No obligations. No history.”

— Lauren Roberts

253. “Every soul tells a story, and hers is riddled with perseverance.”

— Lauren Roberts

254. “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

255. “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

256. “You think I would not beg to run away with you? My duty may be to the king, but my heart, Pae, is wherever you are. It is in the palm of your hands, the pad of your thumb. So if you leave, I will follow. If you stay, I will bow. Because there has never been a moment when you did not own the only piece of me that mattered – loving you made me matter. And I ache to be full again.”

— Lauren Roberts

257. “Well, not to you,” I scoff. “I’m not wasting any of my goodness on someone who clearly already has an abundance.”

— Lauren Roberts

258. “Paedyn tips her head back and laughs. My body goes still as I listen to the sound of it fill the kitchen.”

— Lauren Roberts

259. “Not everything.”

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260. “Kitt has changed since I tore his life at the seams. Now, selfishly, I’m hoping he will allow me back into this carefully mended one.”

— Lauren Roberts

261. “So, if even a sliver of your soul longs for mine, I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to deserve it.”

— Lauren Roberts

262. “I am no one’s queen.” “Is that so?” My fingers find her cheek before trailing down the smooth slope of her nose. “Then you have no idea how much power you hold over me.”

— Lauren Roberts

263. “She has spent the entirety of her life practicing the art of pretending.”

— Lauren Roberts

264. “I want her to burn for me, even if it means with hatred.”

— Lauren Roberts

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

— Lauren Roberts

266. “Her gaze softens. “That doesn’t mean you keep suffering just because you know you can.”

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267. “Shouldn’t let the tension ease from my body when he holds me. But I can do nothing to stop it. Utterly and completely powerless.”

— Lauren Roberts

268. “It’s as though she is whole again in my arms, reunited with the ghost of her father and held in the arms of her Enforcer. And when she kisses me, long and fierce, I realize how happily I’d live the rest of my life at the end of a blade. So long as she is the one holding it.”

— Lauren Roberts

269. “Oh, I’m sure we will be meeting again, Adena.”

— Lauren Roberts

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

— Lauren Roberts

271. “So, with a slight nod of my head, I let Blair go.”

— Lauren Roberts

272. “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

273. “My head dips until our noses brush. “Stay with me. Please.”

— Lauren Roberts

274. “I would lose my life for you before finding something else worth living for.”

— Lauren Roberts

275. “A single touch from her, or the lack of it, is enough to drive me mad.”

— Lauren Roberts

276. “She swallows. “You’re a shameless flirt, Azer.” “Only for you.”

— Lauren Roberts

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

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278. “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

279. “I’m cursed to be a ‘Lenny,’ and Ma still has the audacity to say she loves me.”

— Lauren Roberts

280. “If she is Shadow, then I am Flame. This girl is the very thing I can’t seem to escape – can’t seem to go anywhere without the remnants of her following. Where I am, she is. Whether it’s in the flesh or in the fragments of my mind. And where there is a flame, there is always a shadow. She is my inevitable.”

— Lauren Roberts

281. “Prove it,” I repeat, voice quiet. “Hate me enough to make me want you.” I cup her jaw, feeling her eyes burning into mine. “Ruin me.”

— Lauren Roberts

282. “Quite the team, Death and I.”

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283. “There is such beauty in resilience, in the ability to laugh despite it all.”

— Lauren Roberts

284. “Touch her again,” he snarls, voice low, “and I’ll slit your throat. She’s mine.”

— Lauren Roberts

285. “And if we wish for our great kingdom to remain, we will welcome Ordinaries back into it.”

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286. “I’m not even surprised when she bursts into my room. I’ve been up for hours, pacing in the darkness and hoping she will stride in to brighten it. “Where’s your sword? I need to hit something.” A ray of sunshine, this one.”

— Lauren Roberts

287. “I would spend the rest of my days making her flower crowns if she wanted to be a queen. My queen. Not Kitt’s. Not Ilya’s. Mine.”

— Lauren Roberts

288. “And now I forever want her name on my lips and rolling off my tongue until I’m drunk on the taste and sound of it.”

— Lauren Roberts

289. “Even from this distance, I can make out Ilya’s symbol of strength etched into their skin.”

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290. “If I lie down, it will be on my deathbed.”

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291. “I know if I stop now, I’ll never start again.”

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292. “Pae, stay with me.”

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293. “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

294. “But when she crumpled, something inside me cracked. The sight of her so weak, so vulnerable, so unlike herself, was enough to shatter a piece of the soul I’d forgotten I had.”

— Lauren Roberts

295. “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

296. “I think I would fall on my sword if it meant you mourned me,” he breathes. “And it’s terrifying to think you hold that much power over me.” He closes the distance between us, tilting my chin up so I meet his gaze. “You asked me what my favorite color was once. I’d never even pondered the answer to that question before you. And yet, I realized in that moment that it was blue.” He bends to brush a kiss to my temple, a murmur against my skin. “It is your eyes.”

— Lauren Roberts

297. “Pae, let me force every person in this kingdom to their knees for you.”

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298. “So, you just want me? No powers?’ ‘Yes. I just want you,’ she breathes, annoyed with me. My mouth twists into a crooked grin. ‘I knew you wanted me, Gray.”

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299. “And will you be beside me up there?’ ‘If I should be so lucky.’ ‘Promise me,’ she murmurs sternly. ‘I don’t want to be alone.’ I nod against her hair. ‘I promise, Dena.”

— Lauren Roberts

300. “She is still my mission, and I am still her monster.”

— Lauren Roberts