A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I hope, child, but I don't wish. There's a difference. Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Life won’t just happen to you, boy,” he said. “You have to happen to it. Remember: The spirit grows sluggish when you… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I want to do mysterious and improbable things alongside a fierce and beautiful girl who looks like a doll brought to life… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I’m starting to question our choice of life skills,” she whispered to him. “I know. Why aren’t we samurai?” “Let’s be samurai,”… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
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… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon… — 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
“You can’t atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?” “The dead,” she said. “And… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to… — 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
