Laini Taylor Quotes - Page 9

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• He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.

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  Sweet, Cat, Feelings

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.177, Hachette UK

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• You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!

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  School, Mean, Rodents

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• ...I said I was sorry.” “Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

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  Sorry, Somewhere Else, Said

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.

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  Forever, Towers, Dizzy

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.76, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

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  Purpose, Alive, Weapons

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.447, Hachette UK

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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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• Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.

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  Fate, Bed, Dresses

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• These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

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  Forever, Soldier, Done

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.67, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.

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  Awful, Armpits, Trembling

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• I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

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  Mountain, Rebel, Toes

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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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• It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

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  Dream, Sleep, Cities

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

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  Deserve

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• Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

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  Moon, Sky, Two

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• Rapture cults had packed their suitcases and were massing together in great vigils, waiting for the end. "All bogus," she'd told Zuzana. "Just a bunch of crackpots waiting for the Apocalypse." "Because, fun, right?" Zuzana rubbed her hands together in mock glee. "Oh, boy. The Apocalypse!" "Right? I know. How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?

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  Fun, Boys, Hands

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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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