Laini Taylor...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.341Reading
Laini TaylorZiri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had f… ▶363Love
Laini TaylorIn moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the… ▶331HumanitySadnessTime
Laini TaylorYour 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. ✨ Laini Taylor (2011). Daught… ▶364Love
Laini TaylorHe actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again. ✨ Laini Taylor (2011). Daughter of Smoke and B… ▶342Time
Laini TaylorDeath, said Akiva. His life was leaving him fast now that he no longer held his wound. His eyes just wanted to drift closed. I'm ready. Well, I'm not. I hear it's dull, being dead… ▶342DeathHumorLife
Laini TaylorIf it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast. ✨ Laini Taylor (2011). Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, p.114, Hachette UK342Truth
Laini TaylorMercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate. ✨ Laini Taylor (2012). Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy… ▶332Thought
Laini TaylorShe stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her boldness gave away to trembling. It feels awful.332DeathThought
Laini TaylorIs that all souls are for? For when we die? No. They're for living, too.376DeathLife
Laini TaylorNo, tiny violent one. ✨ Laini Taylor (2011). Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, p.11, Hachette UK365Politics
Laini TaylorThere 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 … ▶354Time
Laini TaylorOnce upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. ✨ Daughter of Smoke and Bone. Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.376LoveReadingTime
Laini TaylorI miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.377Truth
Laini TaylorZuzana 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 e… ▶355Humor
Laini TaylorShe could smell the boy spice beneath the thrift-store aroma of his jacket, and the rubbing and the smell began to work to soften her -- like butter before you add sugar, in the f… ▶311DeathLife
Laini Taylor...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that… ▶322Truth
Laini TaylorHope 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… ▶377HopePolitics
Laini TaylorOnce upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.323Time
Laini TaylorAs for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret. ✨ Laini Taylor (2011). Daughter of Sm… ▶378Death
Laini TaylorSkip 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 ener… ▶334LoveTime
Laini TaylorI don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, … ▶367Sadness
Laini TaylorStop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.301Love
Laini TaylorShe moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.356Thought
Laini TaylorWishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. ✨ Laini Taylor (2011). Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, p.94, Hachette UK301HopeTruth
Laini TaylorWhat are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?323HopeTime
Laini TaylorA thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here. ✨ Laini Taylor (2015). The Complete Daughter of Smoke and … ▶323Truth
Laini TaylorI want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a … ▶356Reading
Laini TaylorAs long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.367Life
Laini TaylorLight 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.379Humanity
