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1 " When you live without someone for as long as I have, love becomes this abstract concept, something you attach to a memory. And when memories are that old, they feel like dreams, and you wonder if any of it was real, or if your mind created it all. "
― Laura Thalassa , The Queen of All that Lives (The Fallen World, #3)
2 " War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them. "
― Laura Thalassa , The Queen of Traitors (The Fallen World, #2)
3 " Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep. "
― Laura Thalassa , The Vanishing Girl (The Vanishing Girl, #1)
4 " This is where happiness sneaks up on you, and you forgive evil people for unforgivable things because they give you a taste of a future you always thought was beyond your reach. "
5 " I’ll be at your side, till the darkness dies. "
― Laura Thalassa , Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1)
6 " We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. "
― Laura Thalassa , A Strange Hymn (The Bargainer, #2)
7 " If I didn't think you were the devil, I'd say you'd be able to seduce even him. "
8 " I know all about broken things. I came from a broken house, and a broken land full of broken people. I have a broken soul and a broken heart. This man doesn't know it, but all his cracks align with mine. "
9 " So this is how the rich bleed--elegantly. "
10 " This was crazy. He ate humans for breakfast. Not tomention he was older than Father Time. So why was Ifalling for him, falling for him when I couldn’t help butpush everyone else away? It frightened me to feel thisway, yet I couldn’t stop this and didn’t want to. "
― Laura Thalassa , The Unearthly (The Unearthly, #1)
11 " I feel … everything,” he finally says. “Every blade of grass, every drop of rain, every centimeter of sunbaked clay. I am the storm that rolls in, I am the wind that carries the bird and the butterfly. "
― Laura Thalassa , Famine (The Four Horsemen, #3)
12 " His eyes slink over me. "I forgot to tell you- you look lovely."Lovely. I want to laugh at his words. "You shouldn't have bothered with the compliment," I say, "I'm many things, and the least impressive of them is lovely.".... Lovely. What a load of bullshit. "
― Laura Thalassa , The Queen of All that Dies (The Fallen World, #1)
13 " Lazarus,” he says, his face fierce, “nothing actually goes. It transforms, but transmutation isn’t actually lost or gone at all. You were you before you had a body, and you will still be you when you no longer have one. A caterpillar might become a butterfly—and a human might become a spirit—but it is still the same essence. It has simply been transformed. "
― Laura Thalassa , Death (The Four Horsemen, #4)
14 " This is not lust I feel, dear Sara. And I hope you are half as frightened of it as I am. "
― Laura Thalassa , Pestilence (The Four Horsemen, #1)
15 " Love is the greatest gift we can give or receive. "
16 " The third horseman of the apocalypse is having a mental breakdown right next to me. "
17 " I’ll be yours. If you'll be mine. "
18 " This is misery, Sara,” he repeats. “But it is the sweetest misery I have ever felt. I don’t want it to stop. "
19 " And the mountains may rise and fall, and the sun might wither away, and the sea may claim the land and swallow the sky. But you will always be mine. And the stars might fall from the heavens, and night might cloak the earth, but until darkness dies, I will always be yours. "
20 " Everyone deserves to die—even that abominable man I cut down only minutes ago.” He kneels across from me and reaches out, caressing the skin that he just so recently healed. “To live is to die,” he adds. “That was the agreement you made when you came into this world. You cannot have one without the other. All your life, all your suffering, all your loss—it was all for this.” He gestures to the dead around us, his wings spreading wide. “You all have been running towards me your entire life. "
