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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

“I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe."
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“...You are not just going to vanish like this, Karou. This isn't some goddamn Narnia book.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“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 hadn't known what else to do.
The singing wouldn't have mattered, but she wasn't going to tell Liraz that. If Ziri's 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 she'd been foolish.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“We’re playing Three Wishes,â€� she told her friend. “Cake, hot bath, soft bed. How about you?â€�
“World peace,� said Karou.
Zuzana rolled her eyes. “Yes, Saint Karou.�
“Cure for cancer,� Karou went on. “And unicorns for all.�
“Bluh. Nothing ruins Three Wishes like altruism. It has to be something for yourself, and if it doesn’t include food, it’s a lie.�
“I did include food. I said unicorns, didn’t I?�
“Mmm. You’re craving unicorn, are you?� Zuzana’s brow furrowed. “Wait. Do they have those here?�
“Alas, no.�
“They did,� said Mik. “But Karou ate them all.�
“I am a voracious unicorn predator.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“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

“Cake for later, cake as a way of life.”
― 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

“It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“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

“As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,â€� 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 about Thiago,â€� 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 hopedâ€�
“He’s not who you think,� Karou said, and Akiva knew what was coming next.
He braced for it.
“I killed him,� she whispered.
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― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“My tiny scary friend is coming”
― 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

“No, tiny violent one.”
― Laini Taylor

“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

“Alas. I am not an option.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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

“She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education.”
― Laini Taylor

“He's such a gargantuan asshole.
A giant, stupid orifice.
A walking, talking cranny.”
― Laini Taylor

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

“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.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Karou had certainly learned that “possibleâ€� and “impossibleâ€� were rough categories at best.”
― 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