Laini Taylor Quotes - Page 7

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• And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

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  Butterfly, Blood, Rushing

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

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  Grief, Useless, Made

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.611, Hachette UK

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• As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be.

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  War, Opposites, Circles

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• ...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

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  Wings, Different, World

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• "Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

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  Love Is, Air, Luxury

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

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• He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn’t sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself

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  Broken, Trying, Sound

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• Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

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  Evil, Faces, Stay True

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• A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

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  Dream, Dirty, Bruised

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• The choice I mean is to protect our own innocents from the seraphim, instead of slaughtering theirs." "There are no innocent seraphim, said the wolf." "That's what they say when they kill our children.

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  Children, Mean, Choices

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.300, Hachette UK

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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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• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

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  Real, Thinking, Important

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

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  Children, Rain, Land

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• When a street musician lowered his violin to inquire, 'Hey lovely, what you got there?' she said, 'Musicians who ask questions,' and kept on dragging.

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  Lovely, Musician, Hey

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• She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.

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  Girl, Queens, Moon

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.231, Scholastic Inc.

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• How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?

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  Doe, Want, Apocalypse

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.101, Hachette UK

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• A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

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  Ignorance, Men, Mustache

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

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  Waiting, Pretending, Suitable

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.115, Hachette UK

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• All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

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  Vegetables, Baths, Clean

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• As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.

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  Regret, Children, Tears

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.235, Hachette UK

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