Lauren Evers > Lauren's Quotes

“Mortals may age, but the gods are prisoners of their own infantile whimsies, never capable of change and never knowing what it is to love because they dare not risk the suffering of loss.”
― Jennifer Saint, Ariadne

“I did not come this far to only come this far.”
― Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Are all these books doors?'
'A book is always a door.”
― Melissa Albert, The Night Country

“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall”
― Homer, The Iliad

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“When in doubt, the answer is always Death. With a capital D.”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“he looked at me with such vehemence that I felt like a blip, a fart, in the course of his life.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”
― Richard Siken

“My skin shed a layer, but underneath is another layer of skin, covered in carvings of his name. It’s always him.”
― Lauren Evers, Suppression

“Strangely, most of my thoughts don’t have to do with whether I love him back but whether I am capable of being loved at all.”
― Lauren Evers, Obsession

“Love…' I drift off, unsure how to say it without sounding pathetic. With some dissatisfaction, I find no better alternative. Sighing, I finish, 'Do I deserve it?'
'Irrelevant,' he says immediately. 'Do you want it?”
― Lauren Evers

“And what would your life have been without me? Pathetic and useless, the same as the rest of them.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“You are his pet.'
I take a step back. 'Pets are replaceable,' I tell him. It is an effort to speak; I will never let him know this. 'I’m not.”
― Lauren Evers, Obsession

“You belong to him, Mary.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“Mary is not weak!' Aris snaps.
I’m a little surprised, and he hisses, Only I’m allowed to talk to you like that!”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“You have no one else, Aris says, not unkindly. I’m all you have, Mary. Haven’t you learned that by now?”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“I don’t feel fear, but I felt something… close when you left. You were there one moment and gone the next. I didn’t know where you were. I didn’t know what had happened. It was the first time that I lost something. I don’t like losing things.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“I am a toy, and I was taken away when he was in the middle of using me. Aris gets to decide when he’s done playing.”
― Lauren Evers, Possession

“Identity was elusive. Sometimes, you’d think you figured it out, only to look in the mirror and realize that it was you who looked this way and lived this life. And then that image in the mirror was suddenly false; who you built yourself to be was false and had been false all along.”
― Lauren Evers, The Myth of the Godslayer

“It was another day spent waiting for the day to end, anticipating the start of the next, and waiting for that day to end, too.”
― Lauren Evers, The Myth of the Godslayer

“You only give me attention when I hurt you.”
― Lauren Evers, Suppression