Quotes from Laini Taylor

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was as unforgivable imposition, he'd chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water. Who knew?

Para obtener del universo, debes entregar algo a cambio

You are filthy with your victory.

Realmente piensas que es más sencillo conseguir alegría que dolor?- preguntó Karou -.¿Cuál de los dos sentimientos has experimentado más veces?

Above and behind it, slopes scraped north, where the teeth of the Atlas Mountains bit off the sky. Before and below, the earth rolled down a slope of scree and scrub toward the distant Sahara. It was a bleak vista, so still that is seemed the twitch of a scorpion's tail for miles around should draw the eye.

Karoo significa esperanza

Ruza and Thyon] hardly heard [Calixte], because a breeze had caused the Lady Spider to yaw just enough that Thyon's shoulder came to rest against Ruza's, and he left it there, and that took all their focus as Calixte navigated into the new skyship hangar.

Karou significa esperanza

Might they just be two ways of saying the same thing? Suppose 'Heave' and 'Hell' are just other universes.

La vida es la que se expande para llenar los mundos. Es la vida tu dueña, o la muerte.

It looked for all the world as Karou had described it in her one brief e-mail to Zuzana: like a sandcastle, a very big sandcastle. It was monumental: an entire town, really – lanes and plazas, neighborhoods, a caravansary, granary, and palace – all of it echoing empty. Its creators had dreamed on a legendary scale, and to stand in its flagstone court, mud walls and peaked roofs jutting overhead, was to feel shrunk to the size of a songbird.

Firework test fizzled past like a misbegotten angel

Sarai couldn't even remember what her own had been like, back before she had made of it the zoo of terrors it was now - her own mind a place she was afraid to be caught out in after dark.

It's not copying, though. It's an homage. Of course, that's what artists always say when they steal from other artists.

Tu alma y la mía cantan la misma canción.

If Eliza had been a whiner, or a prima donna, or some kind of loud chewer or something, this journey could have been a nightmare.

To her, the human form — plain as it was, and not spliced together with other species — was a missed opportunity.

Érase una vez dos lunas que eran hermanas. Nitid era la diosa de las lagrimas y la vida, y el cielo era suyo. Nadie veneraba a Ellai, Excepto los amantes secretos.

She craved the moonlight and the wind. She wanted to feel the infinite depth of space above and around her.

It was a deep and ravishing landscape, and a daring and magnificent dream. Too daring, too magnificent for the likes of him. He knew that, but the dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around.

Hay intimidad en el dolor. Cualquiera que haya consolado a alguien que sufre lo sabe

Puzzlement drew a crease in his brow, like he was divining a mystery. Like she was his mystery.

No importa lo que me suceda, se dijo a sí misma. Soy una entre un billón. Soy polvo de estrellas reunido momentáneamente en un cuerpo. Me desperdigaré. Algún día, ese polvo se transformará en otras cosas y yo seré libre. Como Brimstone es libre.

He learned to coax Brother Cyrus into that place of reverie, and he collected the stories like treasure. Lazlo owned nothing, not one single thing, but from the first, the stories felt like his own hoard of gold.