Laura Steven > Quotes

“I love you, I have loved you, and I will love you.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“And so, in the absence of any abiding religious convictions, this was the one blind faith I had: that love was a physical force, and it was never wasted. Once it was called out into the universe, it would echo back to us forever.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“in the last thousand years:
empires have risen and fallen
and I have loved you,
plagues have leaped from rat to daughter
and I have loved you
humanity has conquered sea and sky
and I have loved you
kings have been slain and forests razed and witches
burned and and gold struck and maps redrawn and
fortunes traded and volcanoes erupted and moons
landed and cathedrals sculpted and rivers dirtied
and masterpieces painted and battlefields bloodied
and I love you,
and I have loved you,
and I will love you.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“It’s impossible to have bravery without fear. Bravery is picking up the fear and carrying it alongside you, rather than allowing it to block the path.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“If a hero is someone who will give up love to save the world, then a villain is the reverse. Someone who will give up the world to save love.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Bitches bite back. And men hate that. Society hates that.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“This girl who was soft at heart, who was both the vast, dark woods and the glorious light of a full moon, who was angry at all the thousand tiny ways she’d been hurt in her life.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“Because that’s the thing about humans - we leave traces of our souls everywhere, as unique and identifying as fingerprints.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Time heals all wounds, but not the ones you leave infected.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“[It may seem like we're always eating, but that's because we're always eating.]”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“If people are songs
Written in the major or the minor key,
Then you, my dear, are major.

A climb, a crescendo, a thousand trumpets.
A clashing of cymbals, joy and awe,
Rousing, reaching, always to the stars.

And I am but a dirge, a requiem, a lamentation,
A melancholic harp in D minor,
Forever wondering why you chose me.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“I think I understood a long time ago that big joy and small joy are the same. It sounds trite, but it’s true.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Whatever a soul was, it could be carried in a notebook.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“What do I want to be now? Bold. Fierce. Honest. A fighter. A revolutionary. A bitch. Because the way the world treats teenage girls – as sluts, as objects, as bitches – is not okay. It’s the exact opposite of okay.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“I get why he's lashing out. As a privileged white dude, he's used to being able to buy whatever he wants. He lives in a country where even the presidency can be bought.
But he can't buy my love. And that frustrates the hell out of him.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Portugal. That's where I'd heard the word saudade before. It wasn't really translatable. A kind of longing, a nostalgia, a sense of incompleteness, not just romantic but existential, rooted in the very fabric of our people. (...) Portuguese was the language of melancholic dreamers, of lonely poets.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Maybe that’s all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Because you know my motto: do no harm, but take no shit.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Basically, if you're a woman, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“To the innocent onlooker it might seem sort of sweet. To me it seems like he's saying "I don't respect your decision not to want to fuck me, and I will manipulate the hell out of your emotions until you change your mind.”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“The cruelest fate the gods and stars had ever written: the person I loved most in the world was the person who would ultimately destroy me.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“The real reason they encourage little girls not to fight. So that we won’t know how.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“Being a woman attracted to another woman was confusing; a constant game of comparison and lust. You never quite knew whether you were jealous of their body or just jealous of the person who got to touch it.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“It was the great paradox of my existence – I wanted to be loved, but I also wanted to be left alone. A dichotomy I could never quite reconcile.”
― Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

“She was so much like me that it often felt like talking to myself. There was a unique kind of comfort in that.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“I was so perfect before the world told me otherwise”
― Laura Steven , Every Exquisite Thing

“Oh, right," I snap. "And because he's spent enough money and inserted enough friendship tokens, the offer of sex and/or marriage should just fall out anytime now?”
― Laura Steven, The Exact Opposite of Okay

“Alice reminded me of the woods: vast and beautiful and dark, but overgrown with defence mechanisms; thistles and hogweed, poisonous mushrooms and gnarled roots. Talking to her was like grabbing a fistful of nettles.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls

“slipping,
slipping,
and there,
in a grave colder than Mars,
next to a soul I'd loved for a hundred lives and lost in every one,
we took our final breath beneath the indifferent stars.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“How thoroughly unreasonable for my actions to have consequences.”
― Laura Steven, The Society For Soulless Girls