Our Infinite Fates 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

“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

“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

“Whatever a soul was, it could be carried in a notebook.”
― 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

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

“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

“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

“What’s your secret, Evelyn? How does the candle of hope in your chest never burn down to the wick?”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“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

“Without you, there would be no poetry.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“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”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Ya’aburnee was a favourite. It means ‘may you bury me.’ It’s the idea that one person in a pairing longs to die before the other, because living without them would be too excruciating.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“My heart is a haunted house surrounded by a moat of my own digging, kept empty of warmth so I won't miss it come winter.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Life gives us grief like mounds of wet clay,
Ripe and heavy beneath our reluctant hands,
And with it we can do one of three things.

We can carry it with us whenever we go,
Stooped beneath its awful weight,
We can shove it to the back of a wardrobe,
Buried beneath an old waxed coat,
Or we can make something beautiful,
And let it live on beyond us.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“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

“a melancholic harp in D minor, forever wondering why you chose me. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Love can make a villain of anyone,”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“How easy modernity had made it to declare love—a funny video shared with a friend, real money sent to virtual coffee funds, a snap of the flowers your grandmother picked from her garden. The everyday tenderness of “I saw this and thought of you.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Bravery is picking up the
fear and carrying it alongside you, rather than allowing it to block the path”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“To love was to live, and to live was to die.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Life itself should not be a commodity.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“Though, without you, there would be no poetry. I would have only the harsh lens of my own worldview. I wouldn’t be able to see the beauty of life, because I only see it through your eyes. Muse is too simple a word for what you are to me.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“The Evelyn I know … they love over and over and over again, even though it can only ever end in tragedy. Even though they’ve lost everyone they’ve ever loved, and they miss them in the next life, and the next, and the next. Never have they developed hard edges like I have. Never have they tried to protect themselves from that pain. They love softly, and fiercely, and openly, and it’s the bravest thing I know. The most human thing I know.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“And hadn’t I always known this? That to be human was to love and love and love, knowing it could only end in tragedy? Every babe in arms was born to this terrible fate, every parent and child, every spouse, every friend and lover and sibling, every uncle and aunt and great-great-grandfather, every found family, all of us bound to the perpetual cycle, all of it so awful and wonderful and inescapable. To love was to live, and to live was to die.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates

“The everyday tenderness of “I saw this and thought of you.”
― Laura Steven, Our Infinite Fates