Laini Taylor

“Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance…

— Laini Taylor

“The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn’t drive us mad.”

— Laini Taylor

“I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain,…

— Laini Taylor

“To the naked eye, he’s decent kissing height if I wear platforms, though of course a live test will be required before…

— Laini Taylor

You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’…

— Laini Taylor

“...You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.”

— Laini Taylor

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

— Laini Taylor

“She told Mik, "You have perfect violin-playing muscles." "And you, with your mighty puppeteer arms. We put the chimaera to shame." She…

— Laini Taylor

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was…

— Laini Taylor

“By the time the plan's wheels touched down on a desolate stretch of desert runway, the sun had cleared a ridge of…

— Laini Taylor

“It was hard to imagine feeling that magical tingling sensation in the pit of her belly anytime soon. Best not to worry…

— 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

“He listened like a cactus drinks the rain.”

— Laini Taylor

Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and…

— Laini Taylor

Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which,…

— Laini Taylor

“It was no small thing to shed a lifetime of nonbeing and suddenly be seen .”

— Laini Taylor

“I have not yet elected to bestow the grace of my saliva upon another human being. I have never… kissed anyone.”

— Laini Taylor

“In the legends, chimaera were sprung from tears and seraphim from blood, but in this moment they are, all of them, children…

— Laini Taylor

“Once upon a time, before chimaera and seraphim, there was the sun and the moons. The sun was betrothed to Nitid, the…

— Laini Taylor

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged…

— Laini Taylor

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

— Laini Taylor

Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a…

— Laini Taylor

“Me & Mik. I've never been part of an ampersand before.”

— Laini Taylor

“Saved from war by poor navigation?”

— Laini Taylor

And I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

— Laini Taylor