Laini Taylor Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it. "Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response." "Oh, do you give flowers often?" "Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly. Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.

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  Flower, Giving, Enjoy Life

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.467, Hachette UK

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• Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.

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  Beautiful, Song, Home

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• Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.

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  Waiting, Lazy, Type

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• Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-

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  Heart, Butterfly, Drawing

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• Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

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  Long, Misery, Life Is

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.

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  Girl, Dream, Eye

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.13, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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.

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  Sparks, Sparkle

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• We dreamed together of the world remade.

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  Together, World

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

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  Guy, Invaders, Knows

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

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• In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.

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  Feelings, Would Be, Easy

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

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  Love You, Thinking, Mind

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

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  Fighting, Looks, Killing

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• If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.

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  Chocolate, Breakfast, Ifs

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.

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  Sleep, Lovely, Doe

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