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I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.

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Color, Missing, Sunrise

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The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

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Animal, Soul, Brain

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.35, Scholastic Inc.

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Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

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Soul, Half, Body

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

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Skeletons, Self, Sky

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.40, Scholastic Inc.

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Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.

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Cat, Essence, Different

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.42, Scholastic Inc.

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Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild like a little monsoon. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true. She might kill everyone she loves.

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Girl, Fall, Kissing

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.63, Scholastic Inc.

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You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock's. Saliva. There's DNA in saliva. You're like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks

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Beautiful, Boys, Dna

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

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Next Week, Ideas, Growth

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.

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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.

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Loneliness, Soul, Way

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It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.

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Touching, Way, Subtle

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.158, Hachette UK

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Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.

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Children, Waiting, Squandering

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She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.

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Girl, Missing, Magic

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.35, Hachette UK

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

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Law, Flying, Gravity

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.155, Hachette UK

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Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

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Book, Mold, Myth

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With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.

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Broken, Return, Infinite

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We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

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Play, Pieces, Persons

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A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.

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Powerful, Self, Wish

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There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!

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Rip, Army, Boys

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.82, Hachette UK

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...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

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Pain, Magic, Ugly

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She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.

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Unbearable, Fallen, Overpowering

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.245, Hachette UK

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No, tiny violent one.

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Tiny, Violent

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.11, Hachette UK

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Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

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Sharks, People, Fetus

Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.53, Hachette UK

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Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!

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Butterfly, Stomach, Gross

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.49, Hachette UK

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...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.

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Air, Love At First Sight, Stories

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

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Soul, Dies

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Born: December 11, 1971
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