T.A. Lawrence > Quotes

“He should have chosen you years ago.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Your body is the vessel that tethers your soul to this side of the sun. It’s what keeps you here with me. That, and that alone, is what I love it for.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“you’ve endured so much pain, so much hate, and yet, it’s never once broken you. It’s never caused you to lash out or become cruel. That is strength, Farin. To endure cruelty and remain tender in heart. It takes strong skin not to develop a callous.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“After all, wasn’t dinner where seduction usually began?”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Bond of Broken Glass

“No Asha, Queen of Naenden, weaver of tales and protector of the helpless, a girl—no, a woman—like you deserves to be cherished. Right here. Right now. To eternity and every fleeting moment in between.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I’d wait a millennium if I thought i had the slightest chance with you.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I can see you’re not impressed,” he said, “but if you only knew the joys of being immersed in another world, the way the written word can transport you—”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Your name will die with me. Know that I loved you to the end.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Take our hearts an we’ll pretend we offered them freely.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“My tutor used to tell me that true bravery rips the soul wide open. That there's nothing that hurts more than being truly courageous. And that, if one lives through their bravery, they're rewarded with a heart immune to being ripped open by anyone else.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken:

“I think I liked how it felt to feel nothing, to leave my pain behind. But you…you hurt me, sometimes. It hurts to love you, because I have to turn inward. Examine myself. Make choices. You know how much I hate to choose. But if I got to choose, I’d choose you.”
― T.A. Lawrence, Freeing Hook

“What do you know of the fae?” Only what I can learn from the whispers. I know that you traveled to Alondria through a Rip in the fabric that separates worlds. I know you are a swift people. A strong people. That your injuries heal before any true damage can be inflicted. I know there is one among you who rules the rest, who led his people through the Rip and slaughtered hosts until the original inhabitants of this land submitted to his will. Tell me, how many worlds have your people conquered? Mother’s mouth went dry, and her voice croaked as she said, “Just this one. We might be a mighty people in this world, but this was not always the case.” Ah. That explains it. “Explains what?” Why you’re so unnatural. “Thanks.” I only mean that you have no place in the order of nature, not in Alondria, at least. Here, there is no foe, no predator to balance you out, to keep you from devouring life itself.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“My face might not have been useful in attracting men. But, in my experience, I found there were more men out there worth repelling than attracting, so I tried to consider myself lucky.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“That I’m a fool, so hopelessly in love that I’d let you slit my throat as long as I thought it’s what you wanted?”
― T.A. Lawrence, Freeing Hook

“When your mind finally works out its own thoughts, you start to realize there's a weight to eternity. That even though the possibilities seem endless, there's not really a potential for limitless pleasure. Eventually, I'm going to run out of the things that bring me enjoyment. That's the thing about thrills-they have a tendency to grow dull so very quickly.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Bond of Broken Glass

“Maybe falling out of love with someone isn’t like that,” I offered. “Maybe it’s just something that happens when we aren’t paying attention to it. Not one pivotal moment. It’s just all the little not-moments that add up. The moments we forget to make.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“My dearest, darlingest, prince, For what it’s worth, you’re hotter than your dad.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Bond of Broken Glass

“Familiar, that’s what this was. Just another day of strangers hurling insults at me. Somehow, it grounded me.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“But people don’t change that much over their lives. We just rotate through the different versions of ourselves. Like we might our different work boots. We have a favorite, of course, one that’s most worn in and comfortable. But then we have our nice pair, and the pair we wear for trekking through the ice, with all the spikes at the bottom. So far, I’ve determined that inside your mother are three different females. This one, the one you remember, and the one she only lets me see. Now, out of the three, I’m madly in love with two of them.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Realm of Shattered Lies

“Memories like that—they cling to dusty surfaces and hide behind the facial structure of strangers who happen to resemble an abuser. It’s the kind of touch that sticks to your soul like tar and only makes your fingers unusable and sore the more you try to rip it off. It breaks you.”
― T. A. Lawrence

“I think I’ve spent my life keeping one too many secrets. Secrets that were not mine to keep, yet, not mine to tell.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“She seemed much too kind to love someone so cruel. But perhaps that was a fault of kind people; they tended to see good where there was none.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Bond of Broken Glass

“You see, society only cares about a
woman's filter if that woman is eligible to marry.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I think sometimes you forget I'm human.
We don't have centuries to forgive.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“And for that act of bravery, one so unexpected, so unnatural for your kind, whose only prospect, only purpose, is survival, I, the merciful ruler that I am, have deemed to grant her yet another day.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I could have smacked him. But I kissed him instead.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Bond of Broken Glass

“blotches. “Because I adore you too much to let anything happen to you.” She frowned, a pained wince that looked as though I might as well have stabbed her in the gut. “But you could have waited it out, Asha. They might have never picked me. And, even if they had…” She jolted up and gripped her stomach, wincing as she fought for breath. Her pretty smile soured as she gritted her teeth. Agony stretched across my sister’s dainty features, contorting them and molding them until she finally managed to get the words out. “I would have rather died than… I can’t get through this, Asha. I won’t. The pain, it’s like it’s filling my lungs with water. I can’t. I can’t breathe.” I lifted myself onto my elbow and stroked her sweating”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Okay, I definitely wasn’t imagining things. Kiran had most certainly scooted closer to me at some point in this conversation. How I hadn’t noticed earlier, I had no idea. Perhaps because you were the one who slithered your way up to him. I changed the subject.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“possible,”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Bond of Broken Glass

“try to dwell on anything other than what it would be like to join myself to her, to become one, to knit my soul with a being who had kept hers pure. I’d probably just soil it anyway.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken