Laini Taylor Quotes - Page 3

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• ...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

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  Magic, Shapes, Bones

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• Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

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  Hate, Lakes, Mad

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.

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  World, Mercy, Slaughter

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• Be your own place of safety, she told herself, straightening. No crossbar in the world could protect her from what lay ahead, and neither could a tiny knife ticked in her boot - though there her tiny knife would most certainly remain - and neither could a man, not even Akiva. She had to be her own strength, complete unto herself.

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  Men, Knives, Safety

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• Alas. I am not an option.

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  Alas

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• Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?" "You," he said. "And me.

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  Crush, Space, Dancing

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

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  Way, Faces, Turns

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.

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  Children, Stupid, Eye

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's full,moist mouth,and his red,red lips were hungry against hers,drinking her in return.Their eyes closed.Fingers clutched at collars and hair,at the picnic blanket,at the grass.And as they sank down,pinning their shadows beneath them,the horizon tipped on its side,and slowly,thickly,hour by hour,the day spilled out and ebbed away. It was Kizzy's first kiss, and maybe it was her last, and it was delicious.

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  Drinking, Cat, Eye

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.50, Scholastic Inc.

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• Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.

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  Dream, Creatures, Can Do

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.175, Penguin

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• There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.

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  Taken, Hands, Long

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• What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

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  Fun, Smart, Book

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.

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  Boys, Bird, Looks

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

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  Fire, Light, Blood

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• Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope...is hope. You don't need tokens for it - it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.

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  Children, Heart, Magic

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.

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  Daughter, Home, Journey

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Blackbringer”, p.14, Penguin

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• The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

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  Appreciate, Brain, Wish

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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, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

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  Ocean, Years, Towers

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• Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own. Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

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  Dream, Hurt, Magic

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.138, Hachette UK

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• 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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  Taken, Thank God, Would Be

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• Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.

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  Children, Waiting, Squandering

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• Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

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  Boredom, Affliction, Terrible

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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

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  Pain, Magic, Ugly

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• Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

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  Decline

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.249, Hachette UK

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• Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!

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  Butterfly, Stomach, Gross

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.49, Hachette UK

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