“He watched her with a hopeful, piercing scrutiny that made her tingle, she felt so...seen.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“How do you just thrust “I love you” out into the air? It needs waiting arms to catch it.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“It’s all I want, to be beside you, helping you. If it takes forever, all the better, if it’s forever with you.” — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it’s… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“And… it’s like all my life I’ve been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and… — 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
“They were both fomidable, but they were also the two people he cared most about in the world-Worlds-and he just wanted to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces 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… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living—one without… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Karou who had, a lifetime past, begun this story on a battlefield, when she knelt beside a dying angel and smiled. You… — 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
“I...I sang," she whispered, "if that matters," and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbegotten warrior, fiercest of them all,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“She thought of Akiva, the night he had come to her at the river, the crushing pain and shame in his face,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“... the lovers ... dreamed of a world that was like a jewel box without a jewel - a paradise waiting for… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and… — 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
“Let me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“He would recognize this later as the moment his center of gravity shifted: from being one of one—a pillar alone, apart—to being… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a new way of living—one without… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — 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
