Laini Taylor Quotes

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• She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

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  Sphinx, Azure, Moved

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• I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

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  Stardust, Form

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Stars, Passion

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• 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.

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  Hope, Powerful, Heart

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.183, Hachette UK

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• If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

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  Letting Go, Hate, Relax

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• The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

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  Appreciate, Brain, Wish

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• The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.

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  Love, Two, Feet

  Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

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  Might, Thousand, Right Now

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.285, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

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  Doors, Different

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• Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

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  War, Monsters, Doe

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

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  Magic, Wish, False Hope

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

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  Audacity, Knows, Do You Know

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• Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

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  Eye, Darkness Within, Light

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

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  Quilts, Here And There, Fairy Tale

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

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  Belief, Fairy Tale, Language

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

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• That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.

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  Dream, Real, Water

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.162, Penguin

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• I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

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  Life, Goes On, Stardust

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.348, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Stars, Apples, Swans

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

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• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

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  Angel, Once Upon A Time, Devil

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

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  No Fear, Guise, Felt

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• Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.

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  Moving, Angel, Army

  "Days of Blood & Starlight". Book by Laini Taylor, November 6, 2012.

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• It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

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  Love, Running, Stars

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• 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.

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  Rain, Home, Sunshine

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• 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?

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  Past, Dividing

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