"James often wondered at the chain of flukes……" — Laini Taylor
"James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he might have believed it to be the work of Providence but it seemed to him now that to thank God for his life would be to suggest God had shrugged off all the others flicked them away like cigarette butts by the thousands and that seemed like abominable conceit. James Dorsey took no credit for being alive. His higher power these days was Chance."
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Laini Taylor
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236 Quotes by Laini Taylor
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There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.
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I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks,…
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It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose,…
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... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a…
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The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?
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The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but…
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To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little…
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Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well,…
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What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them…
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It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was…
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Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started…
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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.…
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such…
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own…
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