The Emperor of Evening Stars Quotes

“All those evenings she watched me leave her, those are the illusion. Because the truth is, I have searched worlds for her, looked for her for centuries. I’ve held her a thousand times in my dreams, and I have died a thousand times upon waking.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“And mountains may rise and fall, and the sun might wither away, and the sea claim the land and swallow the sky. But you will always be mine. And the stars might fall from the heavens, and night might cloak the earth, but until darkness dies, I will always be yours.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“How do you fight the darkness? You refuse to let it snuff out your light.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“The trouble is, when nothing ever comes easy, you get used to the struggle. Sometimes, you even crave it …”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Speak, but listen more.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I’ll cherish her, respect her, love her. For all the days of her mortal life, I’ll claim her as mine.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I imagine this is how a star feels as it dies, like everything it loves and everything it is, is pressing inwards and crushing the life out of it.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Love costs even more than power, even more than revenge or hate.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“above all, don’t share your secrets.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“My heart is squeezing and squeezing. I imagine this is how a star feels as it dies, like everything it loves and everything it is, is pressing inwards and crushing the life out of it.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I hate poverty. I hate feeling like we’re only entitled to the worst this realm has to offer simply because. But more than anything, I hate having to make hard choices. Books or food? To learn or to eat?”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I stare at each one of their faces, and this is the moment where we all realize that the boy they thought I was, was a mirage. That this entire time they’ve been the field mice and I’ve been the viper lying in the grass.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“It’s sometime in the deep night, hours after I should’ve left, when it hits me for the first time— I love her. Those three words just pop into my head, fully formed. I love her. This isn’t some bond-borne magic being shoved down my throat. This isn’t even romance. This is love-you-till-your-skin-sags-off-your-bones. Love you till then and beyond. It’s not lustful, it’s not selfish or petty.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Sweet thing, hasn’t she figured out by now that, though I rule the heavens, I’m hell wrapped in a man?”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Bastards live tragedies. Sons live sagas. All my mother’s books are very clear on that point.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Love. This is love. It’s being bewitched by the curve of her lips and the way the light makes her eyes glitter. It’s enjoying her vulnerability because only Callie could spend a hundred nights with me and still be unsure about my feelings for her. It’s wanting to buy her a cup of coffee and some macaroons just to see her smile, or making her homework dance around her desk so I can hear her laugh. It’s all those nights I fled her room because I was afraid of her seeing me just as she has every other man in her life. It’s holding her close when she cries because her pain is my own and the world won’t be right until it’s gone. And it’s being absolutely certain that things cannot go on like this for another year.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I've held her a thousand times in my dreams and I have died a thousand times upon waking”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Magic lives in words just as much as it does in anything else. Believe in something hard enough and you’ll manifest it.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“He’s a poison more potent than iron, a scourge that needs to be swept from the land.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I swear to the Undying Gods that once I’m able to, I will scour the earth for my soulmate. I’ll put my past behind me and focus on the future. And when I find her—if I find her—I won’t waste time fearing what others will think. I’ll cherish her, respect her, love her. For all the days of her mortal life, I’ll claim her as mine.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Sweet thing, hasn’t she figured out by now that though I rule the heavens, I’m hell wrapped in a man?”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I want to wake up every morning to you, cherub, and one day, in the future, when I’ve made myself worthy of it, I want to marry the shit out of you, and then I want to have lots and lots of babies with you. If, that is, you will have me.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I’ve held her a thousand times in my dreams, and I have died a thousand times upon waking. My heart, my soul. My queen. “Callie,” I say, “I love you. I’ve loved you from the beginning. And I will love you long after the last star dies. I will love you until the end of darkness itself.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“It’s being bewitched by the curve of her lips and the way the light makes her eyes glitter. It’s enjoying her vulnerability because only Callie could spend a hundred nights with me and still be unsure about my feelings for her. It’s wanting to buy her a cup of coffee and some macarons just to see her smile or making her homework dance around her desk so I can hear her laugh. It’s all those nights I fled her room because I was afraid of her seeing me just as she has every other man in her life. It’s holding her close when she cries because her pain is my own and the world won’t be right until it’s gone.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“A scribe cries words and bleeds ink, she used to tell me when I was little and didn't know better.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“love you. I’ve loved you from the beginning. And I will love you long after the last star dies. I will love you until the end of darkness itself.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Love is…not how I imagined it to be. I never anticipated these little gestures of kindness that she brings out in me.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“I swear to the Undying Gods that once I’m able to, I will scour the earth for my soul mate. I’ll put my past behind me and focus on the future. And when I find her—if I find her—I won’t waste time fearing what others will think. I’ll cherish her, respect her, love her. For all the days of her mortal life, I’ll claim her as mine.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“Oh, and be kind to your dear human mate. You really don’t deserve her.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars

“She’s going to break me. I fell in love with this woman’s darkness, with her pain and vulnerability. That had been enough. But when she laughs—when she laughs, that’s when I realize I’m a ruined man.”
― Laura Thalassa, The Emperor of Evening Stars