Quotes from Laini Taylor

Hrapan? Harapan bisa menjadi kekuatan yang hebat. Mungkin, tidak ada sihir sungguhan didalamnya tapi jika, kamu tahu apa yang paling kamu harapkan dan menjaga nya seperti cahaya dalam dirimu, kamu bisa membuat banyak hal terjadi, nyaris serupa sihir.

Let's not forget gold. Kings wanted it. Alchemists promised it —had been promising it for centuries–, and if they achieved purity and perfection in anything, it was the purity and perfection of their failure to produce it.

Drawing had always been how she processed things. Once they were on paper they were hers, and she could decide what power they would hold over her.

São apenas livros – disse a si mesmo. Apenas papel e tinta. Papel, tinta e anos. Papel, tinta, anos e seu sonho. Ele balançou a cabeça. O sonho estava em sua mente e em sua alma. Thyon podia roubar seus livros, mas não podia lhe roubar isso.

Karou had certainly learned that "possible" and "impossible" were rough categories at best.

The riddle is: How might a war end? Annihilation is one way. Joram's way. He did this, not you. You dreamed a different way. Akiva, too. You, the pair of you, you had the capacity not to hate. The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

People with destinies shouldn't make plans.

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

Los nombres pueden perderse u olvidarse. No había nadie que lo supiera mejor que Lazlo Strange. Anteriormente tuvo otro nombre, pero aquel nombre murió como mueren las canciones cuando ya no queda nadie que las cante.

Soul is what matters. Flesh is vessel.

The old one opened his mind, but it was the new one that climbed inside, turned several circles, and settled in with a grunt—like a satisfied dragon in a cozy new lair. And there it would remain—the

I bet all stalkers believe they're being romantic. I did it for love, officer.

It was a very small wish. These beads were just scuppies,

There was no drawer she could put them in to give herself a rest, no hook she could tie their tethers to, to keep them in the world.

It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won, but something to carry doggedly with you through everything.

But just because the past is blood doesn't mean the future must be, too.

Fairy-tale city. From the air, red rooftops hug a kink in a dark river, and by night the forested hills appear as spans of black nothing against the dazzle of the lit castle, the spiking Gothic towers, the domes great and small. The river captures all the lights and teases them out, long and wavering, and the side-slashing rain blurs it all to a dream. This was Akiva's first sight of Prague;

She knew of a scribe dressed all in white who penned letters to the dead (and delivered them), and an old storyteller who sold ideas to writers at the price of a year of their lives. Karou had seen tourists laugh as they signed his contract, not believing it for a second, but she believed it. Hadn't she seen stranger things?

There was a kind of euphoria, he had discovered, in nearly dying and then not.

Alguien dijo una vez: "No luches contra monstruos, no sea que te conviertas en uno de ellos. Y si miras largo tiempo al abismo, el abismo también mirará dentro de ti

Even after all these years, the thought of Isagol the Terrible stirred such a storm in him- of rancor and longing, desire and disgust, violence and even affection- all of it seething and bleeding and writhing, like a pit of rats eating one another alive.

Sathaz: The desire to possess that which can never be yours.

thakrar noun - The precise point of the spectrum of awe at which wonder turns to dread, or dread to wonder. Archaic; from the estatic priestesses of Thakra, worshippers of the seraphim, whose ritual dance expressed the dualism of beauty and terror.

Mañana comenzará el Apocalipsis. Esta noche, se permiten mirarse el uno al otro solo por un momento.