Quotes by Laini Taylor

Love is a luxury.No. Love is an element.An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.

It was brave, countered Issa. It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

I...I sang, she whispered, if that matters, and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbegotten warrior, fiercest of them all, had crouched in an icy stream bed to sing a chimera soul into her canteen, because she hadnt known what else to do.The singing wouldnt have mattered, but she wasnt going to tell Liraz that. If Ziris soul was in that canteen, Karou would happily learn whatever song Liraz had sung and make it part of her resurrection ritual forever, just so that the angel would never feel that shed been foolish.

Im afraid theyre in love, he said, concerned. They dont want to leave you. He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, I know just how they feel.

I know its not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, youre not the only one with troubles.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Its not like theres a law against flying.Yes there is. The law of gravity.

Anyone who takes on my sister, he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, will have to deal with ...my sister. And then hed dived behind her and cowered.

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

Happiness wasnt a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.

Shed spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasnt a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness.With hope that the weapons could in time vanish from the picture.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe theres 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 like magic.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

Hed sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.

Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of ones soul so entangled in it that you cant let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like its a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and theres blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you cant let go.

I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when its all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldnt drive us mad.