Laura Steven > Quotes

“We were nothing, but we felt like everything.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“You have faith in all of humanity. You have faith in love. Please, have faith in me.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Until we meet again, my love.”
― 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

“this is how bees make honey:
they suck careful nectar from open flowers
and bring their bounty back to the hive,
where they kiss it from mouth to mouth
until it runs thick and sweet.
every parent we have ever loved walked this glorious earth
gathering nectar from the flowers of their lives,
kissing it into the mouths of their children,
and now the honey is ours.”
― 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. Last year I won a major tennis tournament and brought home a huge cash prize for my family. I would've been on my way to the Championnat de France, if it weren't for the war. Big joy. Really, really big joy.
But that victory felt no different to curling up in an old armchair with a faded blanket and reading my little sister a bedtime story. It felt no different to a perfect pot of coffee, or a warm croissant fresh from the bakery. And so even when there's no big joy even when it feels like we'll never leave this trench alive - there's still the small joy. A sunset, a flask of tea. Your hand in mine.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Something so ordinary can be something so beautiful, if you look at it the right way.

― Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing”
― Laura Steven

“But a little over a month ago, he'd come to the Waterstones cafe to grab a book of photography and a pumpkin spice latte - his taste in coffee had never been especially sophisticated - and within a moment of walking through the doors, he'd been overcome with a sense of rightness. The utterly illogical and entirely absurd suspicion that this was an important place to be, in that grand and nonsensical search of his.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“I wanted time - which, for an immortal soul, was a curious thing to be lacking.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“I love you, I have loved you, and I will love you.”
― Laura Steven, Our infinite fates

“We were ruled by the twin pillars of pursuit and escape, our souls reduced to Tom and Jerry, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, the crude concepts of hero and villain, chaser and chased.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“That was the great peril of living in perpetual hope, of letting unbridled optimism inform your every move. When things didn't work out the way you hoped, the way you believed they would, there was also the genuine shock to contend with. A subtle rearranging of your worldview. Unwanted evidence against the faith you held so dear.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Something so ordinary can be something so beautiful, if you look at it the right way.

From Every Exquisite Thing”
― Laura Steven

“even when we are but bones in the earth my eternal heart will love you still, for even when a star does perish its light burns on for millennia”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“A gift wrapped inside my curse: even when I died, my memories of him would endure. He would endure. My immortality kept my loved ones immortal too. My grief built monuments in their honour, and I visited them from life to life. Until, inevitably, they faded. How many others had I loved and lost and eventually forgotten?”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“I love you, I have loved you, and I will love you”
― Laura Steven

“My mind rehearsed loss before death closed its fingers, as though practising it would lessen the blow. It never did.”
― Laura Steven

“What an almighty, devastating mess. A Greek tragedy with no end.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates