“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’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Karou wasn't a prize to win; that wasn't why he was here. She was a woman and would choose her own life.… — 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
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
“You argued before that the dead don't want to be avenged, and that may be right, sometimes, but when you're the one… — 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
“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
Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to… — 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
Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too. — 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
James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“How quaint that life seemed now, like something you could fit inside a snow globe.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Please tell me you have to pee." "What? No. No, I do not. Don't even ask." "Oh, come on. I'd do it… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“She wanted to climb out of her life as if it were a seashell she could abandon on the shore and walk… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only… — 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 Image
“The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn’t drive us mad.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“...You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
