Burning Kingdoms Quotes

“There is a need, in every world, to believe in things that cannot be seen.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“This story is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
"I could find another one," Basil says.
"No, I want to see if they'll I through with it," she says.
"I don't understand why they're throwing her in the volcano," I say.
"Because she's a virgin," Basil says, and clears his throat.
"We could throw Morgan into the volcano," Pen says.”
― Lauren Destefano , Burning Kingdoms

“I’ve recently begun to believe that love is synonymous with madness. It can’t possibly be an act of sanity. It is restless and always in pursuit. It will fall from the sky to have what it wants.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“Maybe I'd hoped for something magical or historic, but all I see is greed.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“When someone you care about is suffering, you don't care if the whole world burns down around them, or they're covered in scars, or blind. You just want them back. And you'll accept whatever conditions come along with it" -Morgan”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“There is a need, in every world, to believe in things that cannot be seen" -Morgan”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“There are different sorts of geniuses. You're one too. I've never met a person with your ability to make peace" -Judas”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“You look like you've never done a thing wrong in your life, and people like that lack common sense" -Judas”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“Bravery is still the thing that sets change in motion" -Morgan”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“Birdie's presence was gentle and quiet, but her absence is violent.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“I’ll go on hating everything, and you’ll go on finding the good in things that don’t deserve it. And we’ll never agree, but we’ll both be right.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“But I see now that we can’t have what other people have. I’ve grown up feeling my own way for you, and it’s just something that in me, and I’ve always known it, like the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, they way I love my favourite colour, and the way that the train would speed past my bedroom when it was very quiet and I’d feel it in my stomach rushing through me. I love you in a way I’ve never felt needed to be said.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“I think he’s the loveliest creature to have ever been born, the way he cares for me.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“I think he’s the loveliest creature to have ever been born, the way he care for me.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“He closes his eyes. “It ends here, then, does it?”
“It begins.” I say.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“That's the illusion of war. You think the world is over when your city comes down. But then you realize that you're just one city in a planet the size of ten million cities" -Nim”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“Judas: The two of you are as close as betrotheds, aren't you?
Morgan: Closer, probably. Because nobody told us we belonged together. We just always knew somehow that we were meant to be friends
Judas: Everyone needs someone they care for like that. Life's too lonely if you're only living it for yourself.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“...I haven't had my fill of new things. I suspect I never will" -Morgan”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“Despite it's cruelty, I want to know life" -Morgan”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“Despite its cruelty, I want to know life.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms

“You look like you've never done a thing wrong in your life, and people like that lack common sense.”
― Lauren DeStefano, Burning Kingdoms