Top 500 Lauren Roberts Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

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

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

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

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355. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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361. “Privacy?” His chuckle skitters up my spine, awakening my sleepy senses. “Darling, I’d be in this bed beside you if my brother hadn’t slipped a ring onto your finger.”

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362. “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.”

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

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364. “I worry about you Malakai.′ The sound of his full name has those gray eyes fluttering closed. ‘If I die – -.”

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

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

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367. “And where there is a flame, there is always a shadow.”

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

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369. “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.”

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370. “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.”

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371. “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.”

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372. “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.”

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373. “You are my forever.” Shadow and Flame. Formidably inevitable. “Forever my undoing.”

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374. “If darkness is the absence of light, then that is what I am when she is not around.”

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

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

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

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378. “Pae, stay with me.”

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379. “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.”

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380. “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.”

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

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382. “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.”

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383. “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.”

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384. “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.”

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385. “Quite the team, Death and I.”

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

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

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

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389. “Hide your feelings, hide your fear, and most importantly, hide behind your facade. No one can know, Paedy. Trust no one and nothing but your instincts.”

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390. “Is hand-to-hand too distracting, having to be so close to me?”

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391. “One cannot be considered powerless if everyone else is as well.”

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392. “Yes, nothing says ‘welcome home’ like a newly arranged pile of garbage.”

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393. “And those that are nothing will take everything from you. Remember that, Son.”

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394. “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.”

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395. “Every time she looks at me, I feel like I’m gasping for air.”

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396. “There are other Wielders in Ilya that are being killed because of it?”

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397. “You did have a chance,” the stranger says plainly. “A chance at a long life, in fact. But you chose the prospect of power.”

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398. “It’s hard to believe that something so beautiful would willingly stare at the likes of me.”

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399. “Maybe I’m even jealous of the ring. Jealous of the way it clings to her skin, feels every shiver of her body. Because that should be me.”

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400. “His mask slips, splinters, shatters, leaving only a boy beholding a girl like she is worthy of his wanting.”

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