Top 500 Laini Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “That was what had finally broken through her blindness. Her father had saved his people and destroyed himself. As strong as he looked, inside he was a ruin, or perhaps a funeral pyre, like the Cusp- only instead of melted bones of ijji, he was made up of the skeletons of babies and children, including, as he had always believed, his own child: her. This was his remorse.”

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452. “Karou loved Zuzana for her willingness to play out such silliness on a long kite string.”

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453. “It didn’t escape Karou’s notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.”

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454. “Even 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.”

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455. “Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played.”

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456. “When they had hurried to the train station with their violin cases, they had drawn almost as many stares as they would on any normal day when their hair was to their knees and sheeting behind them like red silk. A poetic fruit-seller had told them once that they looked like dryads, and they did still, only now they looked like dryads who had tired of snagging their hair on brambles and sliced it all off on the edge of a knife.”

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457. “Her despair may have gone, but it had left its heaviness draped over her, thick and bleak.”

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458. “Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues.”

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459. “As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough.”

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460. “This wasn’t a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin.”

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461. “This, he never doubted, was magic.”

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462. “Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it’s too late?”

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463. “Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.”

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464. “Hate could do that, too – live off nothing but itself – but not forever.”

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465. “She hadn’t expected to be sorry, and at first she wasn’t. The act itself was neither disappointing nor magical; it was what it was: a new closeness. A shared secret.”

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466. “Belief like that, that hasn’t tasted any real hope in centuries, but has been fed and tortured on darker things-loneliness, desperation-it doesn’t simply subside when faced with its own end. It doesn’t accept or adapt, it exists in spite of reason, and will only ever defy it.”

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467. “Just because the power is mine, it doesn’t follow that all the choices are.”

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468. “Men should have squint lines from looking at the horizon,” the old librarian had said, “not just from reading in dim light.”

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469. “Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.”

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470. “Oh, Astrae, we have kept you too safe if it is us that you fear.”

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471. “What 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.”

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472. “Many a choice is made in this way: by pretending it makes itself. And many a fate is decided by those who cannot decide.”

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473. “Everything else in Lazlo’s mind took a step back to clear space for this new intelligence.”

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474. “Many a choice is made this way: By pretending it makes itself.”

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475. “He would recognize this later as the moment his center of gravity shifted: from being one of one – a pillar alone, apart – to being half of something that would fall if either side were cut away.”

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476. “Over the years she’d found that that was all it took, that lazy smile, and she could tell the truth without risk of being believed.”

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477. “Soul is what matters. Flesh is vessel.”

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478. “You can be on the same side and have different ideas.”

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479. “Once you know magic is real, it’s really hard to remember what it was like not to know.”

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480. “I bet all stalkers believe they’re being romantic. I did it for love, officer.”

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481. “He had crossed continents and drunk starlight from rivers without names. There was no going back from that.”

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482. “Wasn’t that what she had always wanted, to be chosen?”

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483. “And Lazlo was surprised by the strength of his gratitude – to be believed, even by a tomb raider from a family of assassins. Or perhaps especially by a tomb raider from a family of assassins.”

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484. “She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might expand and... cancel her.”

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485. “Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.”

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486. “Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.”

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487. “Innocently, as they moved past her, she added, “Oh, and don’t trip over the body on the floor.”

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488. “During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.”

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489. “My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river. It doesn’t flow away and pour itself out, done and gone. It simply is – eternal and entire. Mortals might move through it in one direction, but that’s no reflection of its true nature – only of our limitations. Past and future are our own constructs. And as for myths, some are made up, nothing but fantasy. But some myths are true. Some have already been lived. And in the drift of time, eternal and entire, some haven’t.”

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490. “You needn’t trouble yourself. He’s only a librarian.”

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491. “How easily comes the blood.”

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492. “What’s a horizon?′ Lazlo asked, straight-faced. ‘Is it like the end of an aisle of books?”

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493. “It’s never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation.”

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494. “If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it’s real.”

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495. “She’d have to get used to him all over again, taking small sips of his beauty as if it was too hot a drink to swallow all at once.”

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496. “The monks kept a sharp eye on him, determined to keep him free of sin – and of joy, which, if not explicitly a sin, at least clears a path to it.”

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497. “Kitchens and women were both subjects that simply did not intrigue him.”

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498. “Karou was plagued by the notion that she wasn’t whole. She didn’t know what this meant, but it was a lifelong feeling, a sensation akin to having forgotten something. She’d tried describing it to Issa once, when she was a girl. “It’s like you’re standing in the kitchen, and you know you went in there for a reason, but you can’t think of what that reason is, no matter what.”

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499. “The venom sang in him, and he was something more than human. He was a whirlwind. He was a god.”

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500. “The senses have their limits, and we can never know how short they fall in revealing to us the truth of a vision, a scent, a sound.”

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