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“Love is a luxury."
"No. Love is an element."
An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Your 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, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't 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.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“But let's not be casual about this body, okay?" She nuzzled him back. "It may be your soul that I love, but I'm pretty keen on its vessel, too."

Her voice had dropped lower as she spoke, and his response was low and husky in kind. "I can't say I'm sorry to hear that," he said, and brushed his face past hers to kiss a place beneath her ear, sending instant, electric frissons coursing through her body.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“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.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-"
"Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant?"
"You," he said. "And me.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“We dreamed together of the world remade.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,�� but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“It’s all I want, to be beside you, helping you. If it takes forever, all the better, if it’s forever with you.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“It’s about Thiago,�� she said, and he felt the cool touch of finality. Of course it was the Wolf. When he’d seen them curved toward each other, laughing, he’d known, but a part of his mind had insisted on denying it—it was unthinkable—and then, when she’d looked across the cavern to him like that, to him, he’d hoped��
“He’s not who you think,�� Karou said, and Akiva knew what was coming next.
He braced for it.
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― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn’t sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“She'd 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 wasn't 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.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Akiva felt the tilt of the world trying to tip him forward: to be nearer to her--nearer and touching--as though that were the only state of rest, and every other action and movement were geared to achieving it.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“She may have been the one whose name meant music, but his sounded like it. Saying it made her want to sing it, to lean out a window and call him home. To whisper it in the dark.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“I can touch you," she marveled, and she couldn't--or at least didn't--resist the urge to further prove it by sliding her palm over the hot-smooth terrain of his chest until she felt as if she were holding his heartbeat in her hand.

"As much as you want," he said, and there was a trembling in him, but it wasn't from pain.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“El Amor es un Elemento. --- Akiva”
― Laini Taylor

“He watched her with a hopeful, piercing scrutiny that made her tingle, she felt so...seen.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“- ¿Qué pasa? ¿Por qué te ríes?
- Porque la vida es una bastarda.
- Bien, entonces supongo que encajamos perfectamente en ella.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Tomorrow they will start the apocalypse.

Tonight, they let themselves look at each other, just for a little while.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“One might suppose you had a death wish.��
“No.�� He was solemn. “Never that. A life wish, if anything. For a different sort of life.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Когда мечи обнажены, откуда взяться надежде, что кровопролития не будет?”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“No one could do that like Akiva could, burn a path across space, make you feel seen, set apart.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters