Laini Taylor

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

— Laini Taylor

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

— Laini Taylor

“No le perteneces. Tampoco me perteneces a mi. Tú eres tu propio sueño.”

— Laini Taylor

If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.

— Laini Taylor

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

— Laini Taylor

“with the staring lack of empathy that belongs to murderers and small children.”

— Laini Taylor

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

— Laini Taylor

“Some things are always simple. Magnets, for example.”

— Laini Taylor

“And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to…

— Laini Taylor

She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor…

— Laini Taylor

“Her feet were bare, her mouth stained damson. Her pockets were all full of plums. She was young and lovely and surprised…

— Laini Taylor

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

— Laini Taylor

“I legenderna föddes kimärer ur tårar och serafer ur blod, men i denna stund är de alla sorgens barn (s. 301).”

— Laini Taylor

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious…

— Laini Taylor

“He's such a gargantuan asshole. A giant, stupid orifice. A walking, talking cranny.”

— Laini Taylor

“You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true…

— Laini Taylor

One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two…

— Laini Taylor

“Hello, King Morgan,” said Gabriel, popping his head into the lab. “And how is the planet’s only non-idiot on this fine day?”…

— Laini Taylor

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

Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful,…

— Laini Taylor

You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true…

— Laini Taylor

“It was so dark, it was almost black and it melted on her tongue into an ancient flavor of seed pod, earth,…

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“It’s an open horizon before us, as far as the eye can see: no angst and no games, just mutual delight. So…

— Laini Taylor

There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want…

— Laini Taylor

“She smiled a little, and there was effortful lightness in her voice when she asked, "And how would you know what darkness…

— Laini Taylor

“Don't look at me like that," said Ruza. "Like what?" "Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with…

— Laini Taylor

Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to…

— Laini Taylor

“You're doing so well." At being Thiago, she meant. "It's a little eerie." "Eerie," he repeated. "Convincing. A few times I almost…

— Laini Taylor

Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and…

— Laini Taylor

“Seventh bearer of the cursed name Akiva.” Here he paused, speculative. “No Misbegotten ever bore that name to manhood before you. Did…

— Laini Taylor

“Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene. But she wasn't. She…

— Laini Taylor

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who…

— Laini Taylor

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

— Laini Taylor

“I have been known to say that the devil gave me my first violin.”

— Laini Taylor

“Liraz’s smile was like the love child of a shark and a scimitar.”

— Laini Taylor

“I met an angel in Morocco and all I got were these lousy scars.”

— Laini Taylor

“Yeah, buddy, that’s a hand. You’ve got two of those bad boys. Good for you.”

— Laini Taylor

And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.

— Laini Taylor

The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

— Laini Taylor

“He listened like a cactus drinks the rain.”

— Laini Taylor