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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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There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.

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Someone You Love, Way, Hell

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.109, Scholastic Inc.

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To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

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Stupid, Butterfly, Generations

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Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

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Love, Long, Age

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Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

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Hurt, Magic, Needs

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What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

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Mean, Air, Soul

Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.1006, Hachette UK

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I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

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Ex Boyfriend, Want, Tone

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I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

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Flower, Eye, Thinking

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Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.

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Fall, Infinity, Exploration

Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.402, Hachette UK

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I start to wonder if I’m being creepy. I mean, I am creeping. Does creep-ing automatically make one creep-y? Or are there dispensations for…romance? I bet all stalkers believe they’re being romantic. I did it for love, officer.

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Believe, Mean, Romance

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My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? —b) Hi. I’m Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin’. —c) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I think I might like you.

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Falling In Love, Thinking, Phones

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My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever unleashed in my entire life. I didn’t even know my face could do this. It’s like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.

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Jesus, Writing, Zippers

Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.108, Hachette UK

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So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

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Epic, Italian, Talking

Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.126, Hachette UK

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His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

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Stars, Eye, Light

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I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

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Mind, Shadow, Hints

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Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started to scream. His voice soared over the pandemonium - a scream to scour the souls of all gathered, a sound to drive ghosts from their nests.

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Block, Voice, Soul

Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.256, Hachette UK

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I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

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Cat, Wish, Said

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Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.

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Bridges, Icons, Rose

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We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

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Has Beens

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And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

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Eye, Next, Fence

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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

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Desperation, Instinct, Possibility

Laini Taylor (2014). “Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.162, Hachette UK

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A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.

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Smell, Pauses

Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.193, Hachette UK

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She tasted of fairytales

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Fairytale

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"Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled. He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading."

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Nice, Reading, Eye

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

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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

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Writing, Lakes, Ideas

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