Top 500 Laini Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “And I’ve found that since you can’t electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer’s eyes.”

— Laini Taylor

202. “He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again...”

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203. “Because if Lazlo thought a dream could not be stolen, he underestimated Thyon Nero.”

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204. “Everyone else had managed to pick up the tatters and mend them into wearable lives. Why couldn’t he?”

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205. “He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.”

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206. “To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than the last.”

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207. “If it’s not chocolate, it’s not breakfast.”

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208. “We might be at odds, hate each other, and desire each other’s destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.”

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209. “The eye’s perception of texture is pale compared to the lips’, and I didn’t know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy.”

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210. “The goddess of dreams, she thought, if there were such a person, would wear gossamer and moonlight. No sooner did she think it than she was it. Her skin let off a subtle glow. Her dress floated like evaporating mist, and a corona of stars and fireflies perched on her red-brown hair.”

— Laini Taylor

211. “Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.”

— Laini Taylor

212. “He dreamed of deserts and great empty cities and imagined he could feel the minutes and hours of his life running through him, as though he were nothing but an hourglass of flesh and bone.”

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213. “Her lips were still moving, whispering the same words over and over. “They were all I could carry. They were all I could carry.”

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214. “The tattered lace of darkness still hung over the city, as if night were a grim bride trudging to the horizon, trailing her shadowy train.”

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215. “Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.”

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216. “A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.”

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217. “Those seraphim who escaped into the neighbor world Eretz managed to hold the portal closed, and they held it to this day, pouring their strength into shoring up their sky to keep the darkness at bay. A bold young queen in that distant world was even now training a legion of angels and chimaera to battle the darkness and hopefully destroy it. But that’s another story.”

— Laini Taylor

218. “Let’s just get this out of the way so I can relax. Karou, your friends aren’t going to eat us, are they?” No, Karou thought. They are not. She whispered back, “I don’t think so. But try not to look delicious, okay?” She was rewarded with a snort from Zuzana. “That poses a problem, seeing as how we are totally delicious.”

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219. “Peace is more than the absence of war.”

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220. “It’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.”

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221. “And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh.”

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222. “With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.”

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223. “The world was carnage. You either suffered it or inflicted it.”

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224. “Remember: The spirit grows sluggish when you neglect the passions.”

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225. “Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.”

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226. “Plants... dreamed they were birds... and they found rich soil and sweet seas and plants that dreamed they were birds and drifted up to the clouds on leaves like wings.”

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227. “Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.”

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228. “You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock’s. Saliva. There’s DNA in saliva. You’re like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks.”

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229. “Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn’t like being locked away.”

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230. “It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.”

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231. “None of us became monks to be nursemaids.” To which the child Lazlo replied, with fire in his soul, “And none of us became children to be orphans.” But.”

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232. “The goddess of assassins has tasted my blood, he thought, and he wondered if she liked it, and wanted more.”

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233. “He listened like a cactus drinks the rain.”

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234. “There is unique pleasure in introducing the bizarre and inconceivable to others.”

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235. “He had melted away, and she felt his absence like a space cut from the air.”

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236. “Love affair. Doesn’t that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it’s a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.”

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237. “Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one’s soul so entangled in it that you can’t let it go, even if you try. If you feel it – if you really feel it – then you speak it like it’s a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there’s blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can’t let go.”

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238. “The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don’t bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you’ve made yourself a lonely nest to live in.”

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239. “Cake for later, cake as a way of life.”

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240. “Then there were things – epic, terrible things – that he didn’t tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.”

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241. “Sometimes a moment is so remarkable that it carves out a space in time and spins there, while the world rushes on around it. This was one such.”

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242. “These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.”

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243. “Forbid a man something and he craves it like his soul’s salvation.”

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244. “And 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.”

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245. “He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn’t sleep at all.”

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246. “It wasn’t even an alternate version of his life. He hadn’t gone back in time and done everything differently to get to this place. It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.”

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247. “To take from the universe, you must give.”

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248. “Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.”

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249. “Love makes a person do strange things.”

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250. “The night felt very long, but it ended as all nights do.”

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