Lauren Kate famous quotes

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?
-- Lauren Kate

#What If #Were Meant To Be #Persons

She liked the way he smelled - kind of free and open, like driving with the windows down at night.
-- Lauren Kate

#Night #Way #Driving

Daniel took Luce’s hands in his. He closed his eyes, inhaled, and let his massive white wings unfurl. Fully extended , they would have filled the entire kitchen , but Daniel reined them in, close to his body. They shimmered and glowed and looked altogether too beautiful. Luce reached out and touched them with both hands. Warm and satin smooth on the outside, but inside, full of power. She could feel it coursing through Daniel, into her. She felt so close to him, understood him completely—As If they had become one.
-- Lauren Kate

#Beautiful #Eye #Wings

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.
-- Lauren Kate

#Beautiful #Faith #Struggle

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
-- Lauren Kate

#Inspirational #Life #Appreciate

Will you stay with me ” she asked. Her voice was the thinnest whisper almost canceled out by a low groan of thunder.... Forever ” he whispered back. The sweet sound of his voice filled her up.
-- Lauren Kate

#Sweet #Voice #Forever

Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
-- Lauren Kate

#Wise #Sacrifice #Winning

some angels are destined to fall
-- Lauren Kate

#Fall #Angel

As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other.
-- Lauren Kate

#Moving #Soul #Needs

Then the angels, the demon, and the Nephilim flew to distant corners of the sky, leaving a moment's brilliant flash of light behind them, as below, Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first-and the last- time
-- Lauren Kate

#Angel #Sky #Light

I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.
-- Lauren Kate

#Love You #Long #Waiting

Do I love him? Yes. But when the final battle comes, I'll have to kill him. That's just our reality. We both know exactly where we stand."- Francesca
-- Lauren Kate

#I Love Him #Reality #Battle

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.
-- Lauren Kate

#Way #Pursuit #Fallen

No” Daniel cried “ No, no, no” Luce’s heart ached as he tore at his hair, spun in circle and let his wings bloom out to their full size.
-- Lauren Kate

#Heart #Hair #Circles

I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.
-- Lauren Kate

#Choices

Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.
-- Lauren Kate

#Walks #Teardrop #Candle

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.
-- Lauren Kate

#Kissing #Talking #Mouths

Arriane sized her up, tapping one finger against her lips. "Perfect," she said, stepping forward to loop her arm through Luce's. "I was just thinking I could really use a new slave.
-- Lauren Kate

#Thinking #Perfect #Lips

You must remember how to dream what you already know.
-- Lauren Kate

#Dream #Remember

When one lover suffered from a broken heart, no matter how badly the other wanted to help, she couldn't be the one to heal it.
-- Lauren Kate

#Heart #Broken #Matter

Roland, love means not being afraid to let yourself go, trusting that I will desire everything you have to offer. -Rosaline (Roland's love)
-- Lauren Kate

#Mean #Desire #Offers

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is made of love. Maybe that wasn’t your plan when you created the universe—maybe love was just one aspect of a complicated and brutal world. But love was the best thing you made, and it has become the only thing worth saving. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
-- Lauren Kate

#War #Good Love #Fighting

You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.
-- Lauren Kate

#Hate #Pairs #Fallen

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.
-- Lauren Kate

#Powerful #Fighting #Noble

I can't wait to make you the love of my mortal life.
-- Lauren Kate

#Waiting

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
-- Lauren Kate

#Past #Important #Information

One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me
-- Lauren Kate

#Dark #Circles #One Day

Fear is the only way to greet the devil.
-- Lauren Kate

#Devil #Way

I want you to know that I would do it all again. I will choose you every time.
-- Lauren Kate

#Want #I Want You

Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.
-- Lauren Kate

#Inspiration #Want #Excuse

true love never says goodbye
-- Lauren Kate

#Goodbye #Saying Goodbye

Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward flight, it had to be trusted to take wing on its own and soar past the highest conceivable heights, into the heavens-and beyond.
-- Lauren Kate

#Angel #Past #Wings

Luce: "But what about all those other times, when I die before we kiss, before--" Bill: "Before you even have a chance to see how toxic your relationship might become?
-- Lauren Kate

#Kissing #Toxic #Might

The voice sank through luce's skin and straight into her heart. Daniel's voice. He was calling to her. He wanted her. Needed her. Luce moved towards the sound
-- Lauren Kate

#Heart #Voice #Skins

She spotted a lone dandelion,and it crossed her mind that a younger Luce would have pounced on it and then made a wish and blown. But this Luce's wishes felt too heavy for something so light.
-- Lauren Kate

#Light #Mind #Wish

Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.
-- Lauren Kate

#Suicide #Angel #Luxury

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.
-- Lauren Kate

#War #Good Love #Fighting

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?
-- Lauren Kate

#Soulmate #What If #Soul Mate

Luce blushed. "Then what kind of angel are you?" "I'm sort of in between gigs right now," Daniel said.
-- Lauren Kate

#Angel #Gigs #Kind

I guess I don’t know what I want.” “I do. I want you.” “I know, but—” “Nothing will ever change that. No matter what you hear. No matter what happens.
-- Lauren Kate

#Want #Matter #I Want You

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.
-- Lauren Kate

#Lonely #Wall #Let Me

She just wished loving him didn’t always have to be so hard.
-- Lauren Kate

#Loving Him

How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence!
-- Lauren Kate

#Falling In Love #Moments #Easy

And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised...
-- Lauren Kate

#Ego #Fruit

Use the prise de fer!" Shelby called. "Lilith sucks at the prise de fer. Correction: Lilith sucks at everything, but especially the prise de fer.
-- Lauren Kate

#Use #Lilith

Lys," he whispered. "Do you know what's coming?" "Yes," she whispered. "And you know that I'll be with you until the end?
-- Lauren Kate

#Ends

They're just talking. They're flirting kind of like they're strangers, but at the same time they also seem to know each other really well. I don't get it." "So they're taking it slow. What's wrong with that?" Bill asked. "Kids today, they just want things to go fast-- boom boom BOOM.
-- Lauren Kate

#Kids #Flirting #Talking

what if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.
-- Lauren Kate

#Simple #What If #Arms

People are here because they've got baggage. I'm talking curbside-check-in, pay-the-fine-'cause-it's-over-fifty-pounds kind of baggage. Get it?
-- Lauren Kate

#Talking #People #Causes

You're an angel", Luce said, "I'm in love with an angel".
-- Lauren Kate

#Angel #Said #Lucinda Price

But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.
-- Lauren Kate

#Years #Sixteen #Sixteen Year Olds

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems
-- Lauren Kate

#Silence #Humanity #Causes

Daniel stretched his arm around her and guided her head toward his shoulder. "Little - known fact about angels: We make excellent pillows.
-- Lauren Kate

#Angel #Arms #Littles

Do you ever feel like 'nothing' has happened to you? Like you know you have a destiny, but all you've seen of life so far is unexceptional? I want my life to be different. I want to feel that it's begun. I'm waiting for 'that' kiss.
-- Lauren Kate

#Kissing #Destiny #Waiting

Luce and Daniel fell in love for the first- and the last- time
-- Lauren Kate

#Lasts #Firsts #Last Time

I love you too much to say goodbye.
-- Lauren Kate

#Goodbye #Love You #Too Much

You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.
-- Lauren Kate

#School #Talking #Effort

Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her.
-- Lauren Kate

#Fighting #Library

There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity of her hazel eyes, Lucia in their twinkle. She was not alone. Maybe she never would be alone again. There, in the mirror, was every incarnation of Lucinda staring back at her and wondering, "What is to become of us? What about our history, and our love?
-- Lauren Kate

#Eye #Mirrors #Hair

so" he asked. She was stunned and amazed-and happier than she'd ever been before. It couldn't possibly be real, she thought-unless she spoke the truth aloud, with Daniel and the rest of the fallen angels there to witness. "I'm Lucinda," she said. "I'm your angel.
-- Lauren Kate

#Real #Angel #Said

This train of thought was heading straight for Pity City, and she wanted to get off.
-- Lauren Kate

#Cities #Pity #Wanted

Do I need to ease up on the psychedelics, or did LP just recall one of her past lives unprompted at the most crucial juncture ever?
-- Lauren Kate

#Past #Needs #Ease

Trust is a good way to get oneself killed
-- Lauren Kate

#Way #Oneself

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said
-- Lauren Kate

#Wings #Hell #Holy

I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse.
-- Lauren Kate

#Running #Thinking #Choices

Daniel! Luce said. He looks-Different and also precisely the same? Bill asked.Yes.That's his soul you recognize. Regardless of how you two may look on the outside, you'll alwaysknow each other's souls.It hadn't occurred to Luce until now how remarkable it was that she recognized Daniel in every life.Her soul found his. That's ... beautiful.
-- Lauren Kate

#Beautiful #Two #Soul

The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.
-- Lauren Kate

#Lasts #Teardrop

Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.
-- Lauren Kate

#Mark #Behinds #Dance Floor

I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others' light
-- Lauren Kate

#Dark #Light #Soul

Though she hated to stop kissing, Luce held Daniel's warm face in her hands. She gazed into his violet eyes, trying to draw strength. "I'm sorry," she said. "For running off like I did." "Don't be," he said,slowly and with absolute sincerity. "You had to go. It was preordained; it had to happen." He smiled again. "We did what we needed to do,Lucinda." A jet of warmth shot through her,making her dizzy. "I was starting to think I'd never see you again." "How many times have I told you that I will always find you?
-- Lauren Kate

#Running #Sorry #Eye

Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.
-- Lauren Kate

#Ozone #Baths #Punching

Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
-- Lauren Kate

#Kind #Kinds Of Love

Free will...it's all the rage these days
-- Lauren Kate

#Free Will #Rage #These Days

I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.
-- Lauren Kate

#Hurt #Pride #Thrones

We put our faith in love.
-- Lauren Kate

#Faith In Love

You are the soul that fits into mine
-- Lauren Kate

#Soul #Fit #Lucinda Price

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...
-- Lauren Kate

#Blessing #Prelude #Said

Just getting to first base seems to be a problem for you two," Cam couldn't resist saying.
-- Lauren Kate

#Two #Firsts #Problem

Last night we told you that none of the angels remember where we landed when we fell," Daniel said. "Yeah, about that... How's it possible?" Shelby said. "You'd think that kind of thing would leave an impression on the old memorizer." Cam's face reddened. "You try falling for nine days through multiple dimensions and trillions of miles, landing on your face, breaking your wings, rolling around concussed for who knows how long, wandering the desert for decades looking for any clue as to who or what or where you are - then talk to me about the old memorizer.
-- Lauren Kate

#Fall #Angel #Night

Her heart pounded as [Cam's] lips bypassed hers and came to a stop, whispering in her ear: 'Don't let him flip you off next time.
-- Lauren Kate

#Heart #Lips #Ears

Even Lucifer looked impressed. He muttered, "Only Lucinda could pull that off.
-- Lauren Kate

#Lucifer

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.
-- Lauren Kate

#Moving #Most Romantic #Stories

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture
-- Lauren Kate

#Heart #Who I Am #Rapture

Had God created Love to make pain feel even worse?
-- Lauren Kate

#Pain #Feels

She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background
-- Lauren Kate

#Feelings #Gazing #World

What you call love does not sound very beautiful. Think of the way we adore the Throne. That adoration makes us the best version of ourselves. We feel encouraged to go further with or instincts, not to change ourselves for love. If I were yours and you were mine, I would want you to be exactly as you are. I would never eclipse you with my desires.
-- Lauren Kate

#Beautiful #Thinking #Desire

I've never asked for a happy ending
-- Lauren Kate

#Happy Endings

Of all the pairs the Throne endorsed None rose to burn as bright As Lucifer, the Morning Star, And Lucinda, his Evening Light
-- Lauren Kate

#Morning #Stars #Light

Because she was seventeen, and still alive, against thousands of years' worth of odds.Because she knew enough to fear what the future would bring.
-- Lauren Kate

#Odds #Years #Alive

Would love be so different with someone else? Was love even possible with someone else? Love was supposed to be easy, wasn't it? Then why did she feel so tormented?
-- Lauren Kate

#Love Is #Different #Easy

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.
-- Lauren Kate

#Soul #Doe #Looks

LUCE: You really beleive this? That someday I'll live through this? DANIEL: With all my heart and soul, I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time. -Daniel & Luce, PASSION
-- Lauren Kate

#Love You #Passion #Heart

I hope that I live for a thousand years, and have a thousand daughters so that there will always be a woman who can curse your name.
-- Lauren Kate

#Daughter #Years #Names

There is no darkness as dark as a great light corrupted.
-- Lauren Kate

#Dark #Light #Darkness

You're still here," he whispered. "They couldn't drag me away.
-- Lauren Kate

#Drag #Fallen #Stills

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.
-- Lauren Kate

#Honesty #Guy #Said

Luce didn't know how to pull away from Cam.
-- Lauren Kate

Daniel Grigori!" Arriane hooted through her hands. "No!" Daniel hooted back without missing a beat.
-- Lauren Kate

#Hands #Missing #Beats

Soooo," Arriane said. "Now you've met Randy." "I thought his name was Cam." "We're not talking about him," Arriane said quickly. "I mean the she-man in there." Arriane jerked her head toward the office where they'd left the attendant in front of the TV. "Whaddya think-dude or chick?" "Uh, chick?" Luce said tentativley. "Is this a test?" Arriane cracked a smile. "The first of many. And you passed. At least, I think you passed. The gender of most of the faculty here is an ongoing, schoolwiide debate. Don't worry, you'll get into it.
-- Lauren Kate

#Mean #Men #Thinking

Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh," the girl taunted in a ghost-story-telling voice, dancing around Luce in a circle. "The reds are watching youuuu." "Get out of here, Arriane, before I have you lobotimized," the attendant said, though it was clear from her first brief but genuine smile that she had some coarse affection for that crazy girl. It was also clear that Arriane did not reciprocate the love. She mimed a jerking-off motion at the attendant, then stared at Luce, daring her to be offended.
-- Lauren Kate

#Girl #Crazy #Dark