Quotes from Laini Taylor

She thought Zuzana's tininess was perfect, like a fairy you found in the woods and wanted to put in your pocket. Though in Zuzana's case the fairy was likely to be rabid, and bite.

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

Push the chair in too quickly or too slowly, or else sit too soon or too heavily, and misadventure ensues, perhaps even an unintended baptism of the hindquarters.

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.

To his dismay, it sounded as out of place in this somber laboratory as the book looked out of place, and he found himself rushing to keep ahead of his growing mortification, which only made it sound wilder and more foolish the faster he went. "You

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.

The photo used on the news had been taken by a tourist passing through Sopchoppy—that was the actual name of the town near which their church compound stood—who, alerted by a local, had snapped a picture of "those angel-cult freaks" when they came in for supplies.

now, she had to be strong enough to look weak.

Tal vez todos queramos, pero algunos somos dueños de nuestros deseos, mientras que otros son esclavos...

He understood in that moment that he was smaller than he had ever known, and the realm of the unknowable was bigger.

Allí, junto a Akiva, incluso mientras hablaban de guerra, ciudades sitiadas y enemistad duradera, se sentía atraída hacia su inmensidad y calidez, como si fuera al mismo tiempo lugar y persona, y, contra cualquier lógica, exactamente donde se suponía que ella debía estar.

And when her hearts resumed beating, she imagined she could feel a spill of light into the veins that carried her spirit

It was, in fact, quite difficult to lie to a hawk.

thakrar (THAH·krahr) noun The precise point on the spectrum of awe at which wonder turns to dread, or dread to wonder.

Her body may have been wrought with diamonds, but her soul within will be a soft mollusk thing, wet and shrinking...and easily pushed aside.

She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair.

Las cosas cambian. Pueden cambiarlas quienes tienen voluntad de hacerlo.

Wasn't that what she had always wanted, to be chosen?

Be that cat! she reminded herself. The one that stayed out of reach, and never - ever purred.

Like a star in the cupped hands of night.

It's a secret. My previous best friend suspected, and now she's at the bottom of a well. (Not really. She's in Poland. I had nothing to do with it

Peace is more than the absence of war.

Lazlo's chances came without warning, and when they did, he didn't dither, and he didn't stop to pack.

She might have lived her life in this effulgence of mountain light.