Laini Taylor Quotes About Fairy Tales

Quotes about: Fairy Tales

• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Swans

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

• Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

  Laini Taylor

  Belief, Fairy Tale, Language

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.226, Scholastic Inc.

• It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.

  Laini Taylor

  Kindness, Talking, Waiting

• It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

  Laini Taylor

  Quilts, Here And There, Fairy Tale

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