Laini Taylor Quotes - Page 6

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Daughter of my heart,' was the message Brimstone sent just for Karou. She wanted to cry again right here in the court, thinking of it. 'Twice-daughter, my joy. Your dream is my dream, and your name is true. You are all of our hope.

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  Daughter, Dream, Heart

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

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  Cat, Wish, Said

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

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  Jewels, Cities, Southern

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• I've always been a reader and a writer.

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  Reader

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• The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

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  Long, Creative, Matter

  "Free-writing, travels led Laini Taylor to `Daughter of Smoke and Bone'". Interview with Maya Lubarsky, articles.sun-sentinel.com. November 21, 2012.

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• When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

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  Writing, Pieces, Crafts

  "Free-writing, travels led Laini Taylor to `Daughter of Smoke and Bone'". Interview with Maya Lubarsky, articles.sun-sentinel.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

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  Real, Book, Character

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• I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

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  Blogging, Months, Firsts

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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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