Laini Taylor Quotes - Page 7

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• Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.

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  Soul, Dies

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• The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.

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  Hands, Stones, Smooth

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.

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  Expression, Eyebrows, Arches

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.

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  Waiting, Lazy, Type

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• Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.

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  Long, Misery, Life Is

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

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  Vegetables, Baths, Clean

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• Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.

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  Hands, Drawing, Dancing

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• But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present." Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it. "Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response." "Oh, do you give flowers often?" "Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly. Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.

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  Flower, Giving, Enjoy Life

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.467, Hachette UK

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• "Death," said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. "I'm ready." "Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead." She said it lightly, amused, and he peered up at her. Had she just made a joke? She smiled. Smiled. He did, too. Amazed, he felt it happening, as if her smile had triggered a reflex in him. "Dull sounds nice," he said, letting his eyes flutter closed. "Maybe I can catch up on my reading."

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  Nice, Reading, Eye

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

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• My tiny scary friend is coming

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  Scary, Tiny

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.

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  Smell, Pauses

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.193, Hachette UK

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

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  Pain, Thinking, Joy

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• You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

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  Children, Rain, Land

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• I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

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  Feet, One Day, Today

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• It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

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  Sadness, Expression, Way

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• It was Kizzy's first kiss and maybe it was her last and it was delicious.

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  Kissing, First Kiss, Lasts

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.

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  Beautiful, Men, White

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• ...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

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  Wings, Different, World

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• Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

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  Dream, Men, Soul

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• The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.

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  Night, Shining, Spun

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• As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Liraz. "Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse." Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.

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  Morning, Brother, Sunshine

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.480, Hachette UK

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• Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

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  Girl, Angel, Once Upon A Time

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• I'm going to join them", he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile. And burned

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  Mountain, Rebel, Toes

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• She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.

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  Awful, Armpits, Trembling

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• Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

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  Dust, Land, Might

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.41, Hachette UK

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