Laini Taylor Quotes - Page 5

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• A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

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  Ugly, Life Is, Wave

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.596, Hachette UK

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• Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

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  Girl, Sky, Once Upon A Time

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• It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.

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  Her Smile

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.

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  Dream, Long, Giving

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

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  Fire, Fool, Moths

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• She had said she didn't feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one thing she was certain, and it was that she could never love, not like that. Trust a stranger with her flesh? The closeness, the quiet. She couldn't imagine it. Breathing someone else's breath as they breathed yours, touching someone, opening for them? The vulnerability of it made her flush. It would mean submission, letting down her guard, and she wouldn't. Ever. Just the thought made her feel small and weak as a child.

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  Children, Lying, Mean

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• Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.

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  Smoking, Looks, Freak

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

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  Decline

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.249, Hachette UK

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• Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

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  Kissing, Brain, Desert

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

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  Crush, Girl, Mouths

  Laini Taylor (2013). “Night of Cake & Puppets”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.

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  Girl, Pieces, Paper

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• It was Kizzy's first kiss and maybe it was her last and it was delicious.

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  Kissing, First Kiss, Lasts

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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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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• Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

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  Fate, Long, Too Late

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• One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.

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  Rip, Sky, Two

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• She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

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  Angel, Moon, Night

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

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• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

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  Angel, Two, Once Upon A Time

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.

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  Eye, Fighting, Army

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• Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

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  Dust, Land, Might

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• ...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.

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  Voice, Iron, Speak

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.520, Hachette UK

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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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• I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.

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  Grandma, World

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• Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

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  Girl, Sweet, Helping

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.621, Hachette UK

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• We dreamed together of the world remade.

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  Together, World

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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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