Laini Taylor Quotes

He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.

~ Laini Taylor

It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.

~ Laini Taylor

Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.And never the twain shall meet.

~ Laini Taylor

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

~ Laini Taylor

It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

~ Laini Taylor

And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the crescendo at the end of a symphony and made her heartbeat quicken.

~ Laini Taylor

It's alright, you know...To love him...Please, child, do you think I don't know you at all? I'm not going to say there is some easy future for you, or even any future at all. I only want you not to punish yourself. You've always felt the truth in him, then and now. Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

~ Laini Taylor

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

~ Laini Taylor

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

~ Laini Taylor

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

~ Laini Taylor

Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.

~ Laini Taylor

Get out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.

~ Laini Taylor

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around....

~ Laini Taylor

What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?

~ Laini Taylor

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.

~ 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 through everything.

~ Laini Taylor

She may have been the one whose name meant music, but his sounded like it. Saying it made her want to sing it, to lean out a window and call him home. To whisper it in the dark.

~ Laini Taylor

If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.

~ Laini Taylor

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

~ Laini Taylor

He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.

~ Laini Taylor

Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.

~ Laini Taylor

She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.

~ Laini Taylor

I am a link in a chain

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to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength

~ Laini Taylor

What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?

~ Laini Taylor

I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)

~ Laini Taylor

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

~ Laini Taylor

..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.

~ Laini Taylor

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

~ Laini Taylor

He didn't believe in magic and demons. He believed in day and night, endurance and fury, cold mud and loneliness and the speed with which blood leaves the body

~ Laini Taylor

I don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.

~ Laini Taylor

His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

~ Laini Taylor

To be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands.

~ Laini Taylor

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

~ Laini Taylor

What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

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Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played.

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...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

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The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to de

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His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it--a city that had vanished in the mists of time.

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Life doesn’t need magic to be magical.(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

~ Laini Taylor