Top 500 Laini Taylor Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”

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2. “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

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3. “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.”

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4. “Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”

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5. “Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”

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6. “As long as you’re alive, there’s always a chance things will get better.”

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7. “It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”

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8. “Long life is a burden, when it’s spent in misery.”

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9. “She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”

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10. “Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.”

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11. “I know it’s not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you’re not the only one with troubles.”

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12. “Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.”

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13. “Every mind is a world of its own.”

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14. “Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.”

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15. “Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.”

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16. “It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.”

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17. “The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.”

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

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19. “My head feels like a snow globe that’s been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.”

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20. “I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I’m gone.”

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21. “Alas. I am not an option.”

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22. “And 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.”

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23. “Hrapan? Harapan bisa menjadi kekuatan yang hebat. Mungkin, tidak ada sihir sungguhan didalamnya tapi jika, kamu tahu apa yang paling kamu harapkan dan menjaga nya seperti cahaya dalam dirimu, kamu bisa membuat banyak hal terjadi, nyaris serupa sihir.”

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24. “I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.”

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25. “His 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.”

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26. “Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.”

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27. “I’m going to be the scariest grandma in the world.”

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28. “Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.”

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29. “To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”

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30. “There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else.”

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31. “Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”

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32. “She is in love. It is bright within her, like a swallowed star.”

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

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34. “How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse?”

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35. “What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”

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36. “For 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.”

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37. “Wishes don’t just come true. They’re only the target you paint around what you want. You still have to hit the bull’s-eye yourself.”

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38. “When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it’s really hard to finish a novel.”

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39. “We haven’t been introduced. Not really.”

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40. “There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.”

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41. “I’ve thought things were impossible before, and so far, none of them actually were.”

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42. “Dream up something wild and improbable.”

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43. “His mind traced the arabesques and coils of an alphabet that looked like music sounded.”

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44. “Do the thing. Kill the monster. Change the world.”

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45. “Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.”

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46. “Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.”

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47. “We dreamed together of the world remade.”

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48. “Beautiful and full of monsters?” “All the best stories are.”

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49. “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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50. “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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