01UndatedYou really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?Laini Taylor / quote ↗
02UndatedIt 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.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
03UndatedAnd Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her like the crescendo at the end of a symphony and made her heartbeat quicken.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
04UndatedIt's alright, you know...To love him...Please, child, do you think I don't know you at all? I'm not going to say there is some easy future for you, or even any future at all. I only want you not to punish yourself. You've always felt the truth in him, then and now. Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
06UndatedFor the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
07UndatedYou’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."“Beautiful and full of monsters?"“All the best stories are.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
08UndatedAnd that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
09UndatedYour soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
10UndatedGet out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
12UndatedWhat's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?Laini Taylor / quote ↗
13UndatedI think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
14UndatedHappiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
15UndatedShe may have been the one whose name meant music, but his sounded like it. Saying it made her want to sing it, to lean out a window and call him home. To whisper it in the dark.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
19UndatedSkathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
20UndatedShe had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
24UndatedI’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)Laini Taylor / quote ↗
