Laini Taylor Quotes

Love is a luxury.No. Love is an element.An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

~ Laini Taylor

She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.

~ Laini Taylor

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

~ Laini Taylor

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

~ Laini Taylor

It's not like there's a law against flying.Yes there is. The law of gravity.

~ Laini Taylor

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

~ Laini Taylor

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.

~ Laini Taylor

She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness.With hope that the weapons could in time vanish from the picture.

~ Laini Taylor

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

~ Laini Taylor

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

~ Laini Taylor

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

~ Laini Taylor

He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

~ Laini Taylor

He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.

~ Laini Taylor

Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go.

~ Laini Taylor

I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.

~ Laini Taylor

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

~ Laini Taylor

Be a Samurai.Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.

~ Laini Taylor

My tiny scary friend is coming

~ Laini Taylor

I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful. They are one of my favorite things in life, really at the tiptop of the list, easily my favorite inanimate things in existence, and ... I am just not cottoning on to this idea of making them ... not exist anymore. Making them cease to take up space in the world, in my life? No, please do not take away the physical reality of my books.

~ Laini Taylor

...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

~ Laini Taylor

As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.

~ Laini Taylor

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

~ Laini Taylor

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

~ Laini Taylor

It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.

~ Laini Taylor

Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.

~ Laini Taylor

Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?

~ Laini Taylor

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

~ Laini Taylor

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

~ Laini Taylor

In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.

~ Laini Taylor

War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It's ugly, and you don't even want to look at it let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice, once you know. Once you really know.

~ Laini Taylor

Humans had a genius for devising instruments of death. Their lives were so short and they seemed to value them so little, sending waves of men to clash in battlefields, then weighing victory by the piled corpses. And if they held their own lives so worthless, the lives of everything else were as fruit to pluck from trees.

~ Laini Taylor

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.

~ Laini Taylor

If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.

~ Laini Taylor

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

~ Laini Taylor

Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?

~ Laini Taylor

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

~ Laini Taylor

Is that all souls are for? For when we die? No. They're for living, too.

~ Laini Taylor

It is bodies that make us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hands to hold?

~ Laini Taylor

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

~ Laini Taylor

What's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?

~ Laini Taylor