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Follow me," said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.

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Done, Follow Me, Said

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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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He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

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Two, Arms, Sun

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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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"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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I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.

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Hands, Wings, Want

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Soon, everything else would come rushing at him. Like the ground to a falling man, it would come rushing up and hit him all at once - the place, the company, her words; one implication would lead to another and shatter him - but around that intake of breath the world hung silent and bright, so bright, and Akiva only knew this one thing, and held on to it and wanted to live inside of it and stay there forever. Karou was alive.

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Fall, Men, Rushing

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It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

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Beautiful, Brave

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Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.

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Sweet, Recovery, Impact

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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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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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Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

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Wall, Cat, Expression

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.50, Hachette UK

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The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

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Night, Shining, Spun

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Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

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Girl, Angel, Once Upon A Time

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.92, 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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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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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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It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

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Sadness, Expression, Way

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It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

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Hate, Interesting, Way

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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

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Dream, Men, Soul

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As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.

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Morning, Brother, Sunshine

Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.480, Hachette UK

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Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?

Laini Taylor

Deserve

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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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