61+ R.L. LaFevers Quotes On Friendship, Education And Fantasy

R.L. LaFevers is an American author of children's and young adult fiction. She is best known for her series Theodosia Throckmorton and the Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist series. Her books have won numerous awards including the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature, and the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. Following is our collection on famous quotes by R.L. LaFevers on love, friendship, life.

Top 10 R.L. LaFevers Quotes

1. When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
2. Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
3. Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?
4. He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel.
5. If he is smart, he will run. He is not.
6. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
7. It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.
8. One heart cannot serve two masters.
9. You come to us well tempered, my child, and it is not in my nature to be sorry for it. It is a well tempered blade that is the strongest.
10. The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.

R.L. LaFevers Short Quotes

• I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.
• Good intentions are only lies the weak tell themselves.
• You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.
• Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot.
• I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.
• People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.
• Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.
• Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
• Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?
• Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours.

R.L. LaFevers Quotes About Love

The maids in my village talked of falling in love with a man at first sight. That has always seemed naught but foolishness to me. Until I enter Sister Serafina's workshop. It is unlike anything I have ever seen, full of strange sights and smells, and I tumble headlong into love. — R.L. LaFevers

Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both. — R.L. LaFevers

You love me?' 'Yes, you great lummox. I love you.' He lets out a sigh. 'Sweet Camulos! It's about time. — R.L. LaFevers

And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice. — R.L. LaFevers

You would throw away all that we have given you for a man’s love?” “Not a man’s love,” I say softly. “But Duval’s. And I would find a way to serve both my god and my heart. Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them. — R.L. LaFevers

I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem. — R.L. LaFevers

R.L. LaFevers Famous Quotes And Sayings

For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man. — R.L. LaFevers

He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly. — R.L. LaFevers

If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them. — R.L. LaFevers

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance. — R.L. LaFevers

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough. — R.L. LaFevers

I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left. — R.L. LaFevers

I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff? — R.L. LaFevers

... then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted. — R.L. LaFevers

His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal. If I cannot act - if I refuse to act - that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is to live. Fully and with my whole heart. With this knowledge comes a true understanding of all the gifts He has given me. — R.L. LaFevers

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are. — R.L. LaFevers

There is no shame in scars, Ismae. — R.L. LaFevers

... while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes. — R.L. LaFevers

It is this kindness of his that unsettles me most. I can dodge a blow or block a knife. I am impervious to poison and know a dozen ways to escape a chokehold or garrote wire. But kindness? I do not know how to defend against that. — R.L. LaFevers

I cannot tell her I have been moping over a broken heart when I have worked so hard to convince her I have no heart at all. — R.L. LaFevers

A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him. — R.L. LaFevers

Every time he glances at me I feel it just as surely as if he has reached out and run his finger along my soul. It is all I can do not to smile at the sheer wonder of it. — R.L. LaFevers

I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull. — R.L. LaFevers

He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out. — R.L. LaFevers

I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face. — R.L. LaFevers

I will sit here but an hour or two, then leave." I yawn. "So very long as that?" When he answers, there is a wry note in his voice. "I do have my reputation to protect. — R.L. LaFevers

Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin. — R.L. LaFevers

It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break. — R.L. LaFevers

... true faith never comes without anguish. — R.L. LaFevers

However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way. — R.L. LaFevers

In the distance a wolf howls. Let it come, I think. Beast will most likely simply howl back, and the creature will either turn tail and run or fall into line behind him, like the rest of us have. — R.L. LaFevers

God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep.' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me.' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him. — R.L. LaFevers

I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb. — R.L. LaFevers

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life. — R.L. LaFevers

When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it. — R.L. LaFevers

Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them. — R.L. LaFevers

I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks. — R.L. LaFevers

Whenever you are ready, or if you never are, my heart is yours, until Death do us part. Whatever that may mean when consorting with one of Death’s handmaidens. — R.L. LaFevers

I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting. — R.L. LaFevers

So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people. — R.L. LaFevers

And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament. — R.L. LaFevers

Life Lessons by R.L. LaFevers

R.L. LaFevers teaches us to never give up on our dreams, to follow our passions, and to be brave in the face of adversity. She demonstrates that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible. Her stories show us that it's important to stay true to ourselves and to never let anyone else define us.