02UndatedAs for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
03UndatedOn the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
04UndatedHe wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
05UndatedIt was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
06UndatedEven if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
07UndatedWhy not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?Laini Taylor / quote ↗
10UndatedIn moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint....Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
11UndatedWar does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It's ugly, and you don't even want to look at it let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice, once you know. Once you really know.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
12UndatedHumans had a genius for devising instruments of death. Their lives were so short and they seemed to value them so little, sending waves of men to clash in battlefields, then weighing victory by the piled corpses. And if they held their own lives so worthless, the lives of everything else were as fruit to pluck from trees.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
13UndatedIt was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
17UndatedCreamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
18UndatedIs that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is bodies that make us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hands to hold?Laini Taylor / quote ↗
20UndatedHe read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
21UndatedWhat's a horizon?' Lazlo asked, straight-faced. 'Is it like the end of an aisle of books?Laini Taylor / quote ↗
22UndatedHe drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
23UndatedIt was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
