01UndatedAs long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
02Undated..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
03UndatedThere is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?Laini Taylor / quote ↗
04UndatedHe didn't believe in magic and demons. He believed in day and night, endurance and fury, cold mud and loneliness and the speed with which blood leaves the bodyLaini Taylor / quote ↗
05UndatedI don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
06UndatedHis eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
07UndatedTo be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
09UndatedWhat was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
10UndatedAgain his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
11Undated...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
12UndatedThe door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deLaini Taylor / quote ↗
13UndatedHis shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it--a city that had vanished in the mists of time.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
14UndatedLife doesn’t need magic to be magical.(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)Laini Taylor / quote ↗
15UndatedKarou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene. But she wasn't. She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might expand and... cancel her. She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
16UndatedHome. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy, filling it with art, books, ornate lanterns, and a Persian carpet as soft as lynx fur. And of course there were her angel wings taking up one whole wall. But there was no help for the real emptiness; its close air was stirred by no breath but her own. When she was alone, the empty place within her, the missingness, as she thought of it, seemed to swell. Even being with Kaz had done something to keep it at bay, though not enough. Never enough.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
17UndatedWhat 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.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
18UndatedAround Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
19UndatedThat widow’s peak is preposterous. God. It really makes you feel the sad dearth of widow’s peaks in daily life. We could, like, use him as breeding stock to seed widow’s peaks into the populace.”“My god. What’s with all the mating and seed talk?”“I’m just saying,” Zuzana said reasonably. “I’m crazy about Mik, okay, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do my part for the proliferation of widow’s peaks. As a favor to the gene pool. You would, too, right? Or maybe…” She shot Karou a sidelong glance. “You already have?Laini Taylor / quote ↗
20UndatedLet me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
21UndatedAs to having a preference, that was new too. You take what you're given and you're grateful for it. Once that message is well and truly ingrained in you, it feels like vainglory to imagine one's own likes and dislikes could matter to other people.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
22UndatedPerhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
23UndatedI can't imagine you give apologies, Ten had said before, and she'd been right, but Liraz thought that she would now, She would apologize for Savvath. If her voice was her own. If it wasn't reeling out of her, rising and falling in a sound that might have been laughter and might-if she weren't Liraz and it weren't unthinkable-have been sobbing.In truth, it was both. She was going to lose her arms, the clean way or the less clean, and here's where the laughter came in: It was horrific, and it was sadistic, and it was also, literally, a dream come true.Laini Taylor / quote ↗
