Laure Eve > Quotes

“I ate and read my book, this particular kind of fantasy novel that I secretly loved. It was my favorite thing to do– eat and read. The world just shut up for a while.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“That night I think we were trying to fight against death, against boredom and banality, against everything that made us cry and stare at our futures full in the face with dread. We drank and played games to be in the now, to be in each moment as hard as we could, because the moment was all that mattered, at the end of it all. I remember I felt intoxicated on life and darkness. I felt powerful. It was the most natural thing in the world. This was why we were alive– to be powerful and free.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“Everyone said they were witches.
I desperately wanted to believe it.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“People like us were born to change the world. It’s filled with shit. It’s filled with people who did the things they did to you. It’s filled with stupid pointlessness and ignorance and so much mundanity, it makes me want to scream. Don’t you feel it too?”
― Laure Eve, Fearsome Dreamer

“I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“I no longer wonder whether something like me should be allowed to exist. I do exist.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“The thing is,” he [Fenrin] said softly, “we’re all going to die...But the first time you realize it...how do you get over that?” ... “You don’t, I think,” I [River] said, finally. “You never get over it. The rest of your life is spent knowing it, over you shoulder.”
“Are you okay with it?”
“No. But sometimes yes. And then no, again. Sometimes it’s okay. Like now. We’re drunk. We feel good. But tomorrow...life crowds in again. And then you find another way to block out the truth, just so you can get through the day. If we let ourselves see too much truth, it scares us. You have to block it out, or you’d never get anything done. You’d just wander around being perpetually depressed or amazed...That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t want to see the truth. It’s just that maybe we have to see it in stages to be able to understand it.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“The world out there is nothing more than a load of places with people in ’em. And the people out there are neither more interesting, nor better, nor lower, than us here in Angle Tar.

It’s humans, Rue. We’re the same wherever you go, no matter what we surround ourselves with.”
― Laure Eve, Fearsome Dreamer

“It was a stupid, pointless thing, anyway, to try and make people love you. Everyone was alone. We were born alone and we died alone. Whatever we did in between was nothing but a series of attempts to stave off the darkness we knew was always waiting for us. That was weak. We should welcome the darkness in. If you knew a thing, it couldn't scare you as much. It couldn't hurt you. I knew darkness. I knew alone.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“She ran from the shame, slammed his door behind her and ran, away from the pain and the moment when he had been so close to her mouth he could have kissed her, the thought that made her feel like her heart would burst.”
― Laure Eve, Fearsome Dreamer

“The only way to be what you wanted to be was to pretend that you already were.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“gloss. Inside, buried down deep where no one could see it, was the core of me, burning endlessly, coal black and coal bright.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“The Forgotten Child
Will Come to Claim the Sword
And London Will Bleed.”
― Laure Eve, Blackheart Knights

“The calm that comes after letting go is a craving she has always been too afraid to voice, because she knows what it makes her. A monster.”
― Laure Eve, Blackheart Knights

“I forced myself to look straight into his eyes. “I can stop pretending when I’m alone.” Fenrin smiled. Bingo, as my mother often said.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“Like I need to find the truth of the world,” I said. “Like there’s more than this.” I raised a hand helplessly to the gray school building looming over us. “More than just . . . this, this life, every day, on and on, until I’m dead. There’s got to be. I want to find it. I need to find it.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“Emotions distract...Provoke them in your opponent and watch them open up like a flower.”
― Laure Eve, Blackheart Knights

“That night I think we were trying to fight against death, against boredom and banality, against everything that made us cry and stare at our futures full in the face with dread. We drank and played games to be in the now, to be in each moment as hard as we could, because the moment was all that mattered, at the end of it all.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“My problem was that I tended to really think things through. Sometimes they’d paralyze me, the “what ifs” of action, and I didn’t do anything at all because it was safer. I was afraid of what could happen if I let it.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“It is not pain that he feels but the absence of it, which is somehow worse. At least pain is undeniable. Hollowness is so endless, so nebulous.”
― Laure Eve, Blackheart Knights

“Toen ik jong was, heb ik jarenlang gedacht dat als je iets ergs wenste, het ook echt gebeurde. Want dat was zo. Bij mij. - River”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“It's our nature," Lillath once said. "We made up honour and justice to beat back the dark in our own hearts, but the universe doesn't care about our desperate little stories. The universe has never heard of honour.”
― Laure Eve, Blackheart Knights

“If they control something they think that means they own it - but maybe the beauty and the pain and the life comes in the things they don't control.”
― Laure Eve, Blackheart Knights

“no, here at Bishop Saint James, you have the opportunity to learn how to be the absolute best person you can be. You could do far worse than to examine your fears for behaviors you think you could adopt. Think of it as a personal development project. Study the way they dress, the way they talk and interact with one another. I promise you it isn’t so hard. It’s not as if they are foreigners murdering away in another language, now, is it?”
Do you think that is something you can do? He asked me
I-beam that him. Absolutely
Really he said his eyebrows raised, and his flashy lips tapped into a smile.
Totally, sir. Some of the greatest thinkers in history have said the exact same thing as you. Tick Hitler, for instance. I mean, he was really onto something, wasn’t he? No, no, I’m serious. I mean, yes, OK, he was a genocidal maniac, and yes, OK, he decimated entire populations of people and fucked up The world for generations. I mean, he took it too far, but he had the right idea, didn’t he? Let’s make everyone the same. Because that’s how it starts, with people like you, being terrified of anything that isn’t like you.”
― Laure Eve, The Curses

“I remember only images, snapshots burned into me, bleeding into each other until I no longer knew the order in which they had happen.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“That night I think we were trying to fight against death, against boredom and banality, against everything that made us cry and stare at our futures full in the face with dread. We drank and played games to be in the now, to be in each moment as hard as we could, because the moment was all that mattered, at the end of it all. I remember I felt intoxicated on life and darkness. I felt powerful. It was the most natural thing in the world. This was why we were alive—to be powerful and free.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“Boeken zijn kennis. Kennis is macht,' zei ik uit de hoogte.
En daar ben jij op uit, op macht? Vreemder en vreemder, Alice.'
'Iedereen is toch op macht uit? De meeste mensen hebben alleen niet de moed om dat toe te geven.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“She was a glacier buckling in the heat. Great slabs of her cracking and falling off with awful crashes. ‘You scared me shitless.”
― Laure Eve, The Curses

“Water: They were restless, creative, flighty, and persuasive. Like water, they eroded people’s wills away. If you knew a water witch, chances were they’d be the ones that everyone tended to agree with. They were deeply charming and could change people’s minds. Their symbol was Bilios, the world tree, which sat in a circle representing the universe. Fire: They protected people. They were strength. Confidence. Power. They could usually fight. They were natural leaders. Their symbol was a thick cross with tapered ends inside a circle. Air: The seers. They told the future and could see the truth of the present. They were the ones most used as consultants by powerful people, and that was how they made their living and their money. The site speculated that Gwydion was an air witch. They were very susceptible to mental attack and tended to be extremely sensitive individuals. Their symbol was a three-pronged rod inside a circle. Earth: They were the practical witches, well-versed in herb lore. They took care of the everyday necessities of the witch, such as health products and medicines, home protection, magicked food. They got none of the glory, but they were the most essential of all witches; often the head of the family. They were grounded, patient, loving, and forthright. Their symbol was a five-pointed star, representing the five senses, usually with a gem studded in the middle to symbolize themselves, at the calm center of all things.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces

“You change things with just yourself, your presence in the universe like a weight on a piece of string, bending it to your will.”
― Laure Eve, The Graces