Top 500 Laini Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.”

— Laini Taylor

52. “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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53. “A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.”

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54. “Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”

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55. “Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.”

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56. “Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!”

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57. “Once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song, and then I found you, and now everything is music.”

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58. “The Muse of Nightmares was dead.”

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59. “Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span – pedestrian-only – was lined by monumental statues of saints.”

— Laini Taylor

60. “Life won’t just happen to you boy, he said. You have to happen to it.”

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61. “Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other’s magnetic fields for the first time, and it’s like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-.”

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62. “It was not a happy ending, but a happy middle – at last, after so many fraught beginnings. Their story would be long. Much would be written of them, some of it in verse, some sung, and some in plain prose, in volumes to be penned for the archives of cities not yet built.”

— Laini Taylor

63. “There comes a certain point with a hope or a dream, when you either give it up or give up everything else. And if you choose the dream, if you keep on going, then you can never quit, because it’s all you are.”

— Laini Taylor

64. “She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave – brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.”

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65. “Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.”

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66. “She tasted of hope. Oh. What does that taste like? Pollen and stars, the Fallen said.”

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67. “It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.”

— Laini Taylor

68. “Battle not with monsters lest you become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.’ Nietzsche, you know. Exceptional mustache.”

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69. “Nothing made you feel so useless as another person’s grief.”

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70. “Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.”

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71. “I think with world building, it’s important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.”

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72. “She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.”

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73. “Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to frost and betrayal.”

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74. “Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.”

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75. “I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.”

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76. “I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”

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77. “Like mold on books, grow myths on history.”

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78. “There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.”

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79. “Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.”

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80. “As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...”

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81. “I’ve always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.”

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82. “He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. His nose was broken by a falling volume of fairy tales his first day on the job, and that, they said, told you everything you needed to know about strange Lazlo Strange: head in the clouds, world of his own, fairy tales and fancy. That.”

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83. “My heart feels zested. Finely shredded and ready to add to cake batter. It doesn’t hurt, because it’s not there anymore. Like the angel’s chest, with her empty heart hole – but without the sparkler.”

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84. “You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.”

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85. “He 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.”

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86. “Having hope was like dangling himself over a chasm and putting the rope in her hands. She could annihilate him if she wanted to.”

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87. “Happiness 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 with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.”

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88. “Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.”

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89. “There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!”

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90. “Well, I’m no alchemist,” Lazlo said, affable. “You know me, Strange the dreamer, head in the clouds.” He paused and added with a grin, “Miracles for breakfast.”

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91. “There was a word from a myth: sathaz. It was the desire to possess that which can never be yours. It meant senseless, hopeless yearning, the way a gutter child might dream of being king, and it came from the tale of the man who loved the moon.”

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92. “The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.”

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93. “An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.”

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94. “This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It’s a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.”

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95. “I have scuppies in my pocket and lust in my heart. Tonight’s the night.”

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96. “Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don’t have to be ashamed.”

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97. “Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently of each other, which handicapped her expressions of suspicion and disdain.”

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98. “She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.”

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99. “Karou’s smile was pure; she was happy to give happiness.”

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100. “He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.”

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