Lauren Kate
Lauren Kate is an American author of adult and young adult fiction. Her books have been translated into over thirty languages, have sold more than eleven million copies worldwide, and have spent combined months on the New York Times Best Seller list. (Lauren Kate Quotes)
“After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“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
Passion
“And she knew without opening her eyes that it was Daniel. No other body in the universe fit hers so well.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“And she never wanted to be around Cam. In her own lifetime or any other one.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“And while Luce dreamed below of the most glorious wings unfurling-the likes of which she’d never seen before-two angels in the rafters shook hands.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“Because love and hate were supposed to stand cleanly on opposite sides of the spectrum. The division seemed as clear as…well, angels and demons would once have seemed to her. Not anymore.”
Lauren Kate
Torment
“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
Torment
“Belief in the impossible was the first step toward greatness.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Brooks understood more than ever that she was the star of his life.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“But that’s the nature of risk, isn’t it? You gamble everything on the slenderest of hopes.” (Lauren Kate Quotes)
Lauren Kate
Passion
“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
Fallen
“Daniel hadn’t given in once across the five thousand years she’d witnessed. No matter that they killed her again and again and denied him his one true love, he would not give in and choose a side. And even if he did somehow lose his resolve,she would be there to support him: She knew now that she was strong enough to carry Daniel if he faltered. Just as he’d carried her.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“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
Torment
“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
Rapture
“Don’t turn your back on what you love because you’re scared”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Each of us has magic within us. We take our quirks from the universal store”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Eureka didn’t voice her perverse enjoyment at dressing as an object with a second life when it was dead.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Every single lifetime, I’ll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“Everyone here felt like they were on the brink of something, when in fact they were only on the brink of the end.”
Lauren Kate
Unforgiven
“Existence is never so miserable as when you have a taste of something beautiful,” Lucifer said. “It serves to remind you of everything you can never have.”
Lauren Kate
Unforgiven
“First kisses were about discovery, transformation, wonder.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“For every time Luce met Daniel—and she always met Daniel—nothing mattered as much as their love.”
Lauren Kate
Unforgiven
“Had God created Love to make pain feel even worse?”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“He dipped her low and kissed her fiercely, as if he were angry, and each time his lips left hers, even just for half a second, the most parching thirst ran through her, making her cry out.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“He kissed her with a new brand of abandon. His touch was smooth and soft and desperate all at once. Her mouth bore down on his as he squeezed her, lifting her on top of him, burying his free hand in her hair. Their limbs overlapped, taut with expectation. Their mouths were hot and tangled. Luce felt dizzy and alive, as if their souls had twined together. It was almost too much to bear. She could never get enough. But she would try.” (Lauren Kate Quotes)
Lauren Kate
Angels in the Dark
“Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“Her heart was pounding impossibly fast. Then she realized She was feeling both of their hearts, racing each other. A kind of desperate conversation, one they couldn’t have with words.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“Hey, it was a valiant effort. You really got out there in the trenches this time.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“His eyes burned violet – not with anger but with intense desire. The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.”
Lauren Kate
Torment
“His fingernails and toenails were long and pointed,like little claws. His ears were pointed,too-and pierced with small stone hoops.He had two little hornlike nubs protruding from the top of a forehead that was fleshy and wrinkled. His large lips were pursed in a grimace that made him look like a very old baby.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“His hands grasped her waist and lifted her until she could have sworn that his feet had come off the ground, too; that they were floating up above the creek, above the trees, above the burning hillside, into the dense tangle of stars, about to kiss the moon.”
Lauren Kate
Unforgiven
“How hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.”
Lauren Kate
The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
“I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“I do all of these things,” Daniel said, leaning into her so that their foreheads touched, “because you’re my love, Lucinda. For me, you’re all there is.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“I don’t understand what you’re still doing here.”
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She blinked and nodded miserably, then began to turn away.
“No!” He pulled her back. “Don’t leave. It’s just that you’ve never—we’ve never… gotten this far.” He closed his eyes. “Will you say it again?” he asked, almost shyly. “Will you tell me … what I am?”
“You’re an angel,” she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. “I’m in love with an angel.”
Fallen
“I have to go,” he said at last, getting to his feet. “I shouldn’t even be here, but I cannot keep myself away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.”
Lauren Kate
Torment
“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
Passion
“I just flew in from Heaven, and boy, are my arms tired.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“I knew you could never forgive me,” he said, “so I ran away. I thought I had lost you for good. But then I found this second chance, and I came here to redeem myself. This time with you has shown me that my love for you is bigger than my fear. My love for you is bigger than anything I know.”
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A tear rolled down his cheek. He closed his eyes. He had so much more to say and so little time for it to matter.” (Lauren Kate Quotes)
Unforgiven
“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
Torment
“I needed you to see me, finally. Every moment of your life, I have fallen more deeply in love with you.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“I try to hook you up every day. What’s the point of calendars without dates?”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“I want you to know that I would do it all again. I will choose you every time.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“I’ll love you with all my heart, in every life, through every death. I will not be bound by anything but my love for you.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“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
Rapture
“If the hero does not match the story, it is the hero, not the story, who must be rewritten.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“I’ll always choose you.” Yes that was the word. “Every single lifetime, I’ll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“Instead I choose love- the thing you have all forgotten. I choose love and leave you to your war… 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
Passion
“It is not our job to be happy, to be in love. We exist to make happiness and love possible for others.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“It’s such a beautiful question, Luce. I adore you for asking it, and I wish I could explain it better. All I can tell you is this: The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“Just because I have glimpsed a past life before doesn’t mean I know how to do it, and it doesn’t mean it was my own.”
Lauren Kate
Torment
“Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Letting go of someone you loved wasn’t hard. There was no word for what it was, because even if you didn’t let them go they were still gone.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Lilith blinked, making out what looked like a dark cave at sunset, the sky fiery with streaks of red and orange.”
Lauren Kate
Unforgiven
“Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn’t help it.”
Lauren Kate
Torment
“Love is an endless drive on a winding road. You can’t see everything about another person all at once.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Love is the only thing worth fighting for.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“Love makes people the best versions of themselves.” (Lauren Kate Quotes)
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Love. That which makes a life worth living. That which arrives to carry us where we need to go.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Luce eased the motorcycle to a stop in front of the lake house. She was in love. With the bike: It was a gold 1986 Honda Shadow, and it was beautiful. Her classmate mad Rachel Allison, with her dyed-red hair and immaculate French, had grown up and still lived just a few miles north of their school, Dover Prep. So whenever Rachel’s parents left town, most of their class—the in crowd, at least—turned out for the inevitable party. This was Luce’s first time.”
Lauren Kate
Angels in the Dark
“Maybe that’s what magic was – looking into darkness and seeing a light most people missed.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Maybe you were the inspiration, but inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“Mortals can face many things, but they cannot face their true identity.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Not belonging is the greatest gift. Always remember that.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Nothing is real. There is only what we believe in and what we reject.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Once, you imagined you could be anyone you wanted to be. That you could make the right guy love you and rescue you from your fate. That you could outsmart everyone and leave past behind for good. How hard you worked for what you wanted. How cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.”
Lauren Kate
The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
“Orchards of silver trees bore the most delicious fruits that had ever existed. The angels feasted and gave thanks for their first and only home. Their voices joined together in praise of their Creator, forming a blended sound that in humans’ throats would later be known as harmony.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and ‘normal’…”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip– finally returning home.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“She liked the way this road smelled in the evenings, like rain falling on night-blooming jasmine. Locusts sang old songs in the darkness.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“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
Fallen
“She was luminous. Her red hair had been braided a dozen ways, all swirled together in a high shaggy twist. Her eyelids were shimmering green, her lips crimson and matte. She wore black vintage ankle-high motorcycle boots. She was lethal.”
Lauren Kate
Unforgiven
“Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“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
Torment
“Sometimes when you try not to repeat your mistakes, you forget that the original mistakes are still unfolding”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“Stars grounded her. Their distance offered perspective when she couldn’t see beyond her own pain”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone,”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“The best part was now. That was what she would take with her from her journeys through the ages: He was worth everything to her and she was worth everything to him. The only way to experience that deep level of their love was to enter each new moment together, as if time were made of clouds. And if it came down to it these next nine days, Luce knew that she and Daniel would risk everything for their love.” (Lauren Kate Quotes)
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“The idea is that we all have a shadow, which comprises denied aspects of the self.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.”
Lauren Kate
Torment
“The last thing we expect others to do is the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“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
Rapture
“The sight of his face made her want to run away and straight to him, to see how intense those blue eyes could get.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“The starlight, which seemed strangely bright tonight, wasn’t starlight at all. Instead, Lucifer’s demons had gathered high in the firmament above. It was their eyes that shone like stars through the wildfire smoke.”
Lauren Kate
Unforgiven
“The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“Then I’ll cleave to my old self and spirit the full host of angels into the present with me. Even the ugly ones.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“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
Rapture
“There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“There is great power in words. The universe flows out of them. Use them now, please. The universe awaits.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“There is no darkness as dark as a great light corrupted.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so obvious to him. Which made her absolutely furious.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“There’s more to life than teenage passion.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“Things are precious when they’re hard to come by.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“This is why angels choose sides, why people join teams. It costs too much not to; it weighs too heavily to soldier on alone.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ‘ i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it’s be you”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it’s a good way to get yourself killed.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“Trust is a good way to get oneself killed” (Lauren Kate Quotes)
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“Vulnerability isn’t the worst thing in the world.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“We feel encouraged to go further with our 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
Rapture
“We meet. We always meet, somehow we’re always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance myself from you. It never matters. You always find me.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“We often seek the companionship of others who display aspects we’ve repressed to the depths of our shadow.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“We put our faith in love.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“We’d grown up in a three-year long embrace, and as careful as I’d been about documenting it, I guess I’d never really taken the time to look through the album after I had put it together.”
Lauren Kate
The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove
“What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“What if you find your soul mate… at the wrong time?”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“When he pressed his lips to hers, she was not surprised. It happened the way the sun rose, the way a flower blossomed, the way fain fell from the sky, the way the dead stopped breathing. Naturally. Inevitably.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“When he turned to face her, the drawn look on his face was one of absolute agony. As if Luce had just ripped his heart out.”
Lauren Kate
Torment
“Will I find her .Without question. Will I save her. Always .”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“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
Fallen
“Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you’ve got to take the candle and walk alone.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“Would he find her?
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Without question.
Would he save her?
Always.”
Torment
“You are the soul that fits into mine”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“You can’t love me without growing old,” she finally said. “And I can’t know that about you without wanting to cry. And my tears are the end of the world.”
Lauren Kate
Ander touched the corners of her eyes with his lips to reassure her they were dry. “Please don’t be afraid of my love.” (Lauren Kate Quotes)
Waterfall
“You could fill a book with all the things you don’t know, girl. In fact-I think someone may have already written it. But that’s neither here nor there.”
Lauren Kate
Passion
“You have to survive because I won’t live in a world without you.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
“You must remember how to dream what you already know.”
Lauren Kate
Rapture
“You see, this is the problem with conversation,” Solon said with a sigh, and looked at Ander. “All we ever do is talk about ourselves. Let us stop before we bore each other, well, to tears.”
Lauren Kate
Waterfall
“You will wake up at forty with no husband, no children, and no career if you don’t learn to engage with the world.”
Lauren Kate
Teardrop
“You’re an angel,” she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. “I’m in love with an angel.”
Lauren Kate
Fallen
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