“She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“It was, and then it wasn't. Karou's stomach roiled as she contemplated the possibility of being so suddenly not.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“He watched her with a hopeful, piercing scrutiny that made her tingle, she felt so...seen.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Well," Loraz said, her voice as dry as the rest of her was not. "At least you still have clothes on.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“It was a rule of secret-keeping, in which she was well-versed: Ask not, lest ye be asked.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“To her, the human form — plain as it was, and not spliced together with other species — was a missed opportunity.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“She experienced a queer collision of reactions these days. Karou's were foremost, and the most immediate, but Madrigal's were hers, too: her… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Her mind was still tiptoeing along the boundary of consciousness, in that state of semi-waking that spins threads between dream and real,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“In truth, she had claim to no nationality. Her papers were all forgeries, and her accents -all except one, in her first… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“It gave her a creeping sense of impending aloneness, like she was some orphaned animal raised by do-gooders, soon to be released… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I can't imagine you give apologies, Ten had said before, and she'd been right, but Liraz thought that she would now, She… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“She'd thought that she would do anything for them, but it had never occurred to her that "anything" might mean letting them… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“And for the first time in a long, long time, Karou felt the truth of it. Her heart was not wrong.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“He still wasn’t looking back, and it was enough to make her believe that he never would again.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Daughter of my heart,' was the message Brimstone sent just for Karou. She wanted to cry again right here in the court,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“She’d poured so much of herself into keeping it buried, sometimes it felt like any energy she might have had for joy… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“She felt, beneath her feet, the shifting of the planks she'd laid across the quicksand of that other life. She'd thought she… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“She hadn't expected to be sorry, and at first she wasn't. The act itself was neither disappointing nor magical; it was what… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn’t drive us mad.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“To the naked eye, he’s decent kissing height if I wear platforms, though of course a live test will be required before official certification… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“...You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share
Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“She told Mik, "You have perfect violin-playing muscles." "And you, with your mighty puppeteer arms. We put the chimaera to shame." She stopped fanning… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“By the time the plan's wheels touched down on a desolate stretch of desert runway, the sun had cleared a ridge of mountains and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
“It was hard to imagine feeling that magical tingling sensation in the pit of her belly anytime soon. Best not to worry about it,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something --… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the… — Laini Taylor Copy Share
