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“Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Finding Akiva's door still closed, Liraz gave a chuff of derision and didn't knock but only crashed it open and glared at the sight that greeted them. Akiva and Karou, eyes bleary with desire, facing each other on a stone slab and touching, hands to hearts... "Well," Liraz said, her voice as dry as the rest of her was not. "At least you still have your clothes on.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“You're doing so well." At being Thiago, she meant. "It's a little eerie."
"Eerie," he repeated.
"Convincing. A few times I almost forgot--"
He didn't let her finish. "Don't forget. Not ever. Not for a second." He drew in breath. "Please."
So much behind that word. Please don't forget I'm not a monster. Please don't forget what I gave up. Please don't forget me.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Or...perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“She smiled a little, and there was effortful lightness in her voice when she asked, "And how would you know what darkness is like?" Her hand brushed his feathers and they sparked to her touch. "You are your own light."

And Akiva almost said, I know what darkness is, because he did, in all the worst senses of the word, but he didn't want Karou to think he was retreating to the bleak state she'd drawn him out of in Morocco. So he held his tongue and was glad he had when she added, so softly he nearly didn't hear, "And mine.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“maybe she was losing her mind. or maybeâ€� maybe she was finding it.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“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

“A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“You can’t atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?â€�
“The dead,â€� she said. “And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you’d think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“I kept thinking about that drawing in the war council, and our part in all of this. We cheat the bowl. We keep filling it back up, and the monsters keep stabbing their giant forks in, and because of us, there's always more for them to eat. We never lose but we never win, either. We just keep on dying. Is that what we do?”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“She experienced a queer collision of reactions these days. Karou's were foremost, and the most immediate, but Madrigal's were hers, too: her two selves, coming together with a strange kind of vibration. It's wasn't disharmony, exactly.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Karou's glance flickered to where the corpse had been, which did not go unnoticed by Liraz. "You think I didn't learn?" the angel asked, incredulous.
And with that, Karou almost dared to hope. "Did you?" she asked, and her voice was very small.
Did you learn?
Did you glean Ziri's soul?
Dear gods and stardust, did you?
Liraz started to tremble. "I don't know," she said, "I don't know." Her voice shattered, and just like that she was crying.”
― Laini Taylor

“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

“- Estamos jugando a pedir tres deseos. Los míos son un pastel, un baño caliente y una cama mullida. ¿Y tú qué quieres?
- La paz en el mundo.
- Sí, santa Karou.
- La cura para el cáncer. Y unicornios para todos.
- Bah. Nada arruina este juego como el altruismo. Tiene que ser algo para ti, y si no incluye comida, es mentira.
- He incluido comida. He dicho unicornios, ¿no?
- Mmmm. ¿Tienes antojo de unicornios? Espera. ¿Los hay aquí?
- Lamentablemente no.
- Los había, pero Karou se los comió todos.
- Soy una voraz depredadora de unicornios.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Wasn't that what she had always wanted, to be chosen?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Tienes razón. Muy aburrida. Empezaré a coleccionar sellos. Eso es interesante, ¿no?
- No. A menos que te los vayas a pegar por el cuerpo y los utilices como ropa.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Nwella came up with a silver bowl and a big soft brush, and before Madrigal knew what was happening Nwella had dusted her chest, neck, and shoulders with something that glittered.
“W³ó²¹³Ùâ€�?â€�
“Sugar,� she said, giggling.
“Nwella!â€� Madrigal tried to brush it off, but it was dust-fine and it clung: sugar powder, which girls wore when they planned to be tasted. If her rose petal lips and naked back were not enough invitation to Thiago, Madrigal thought, this certainly was. Its telltale shimmer might as well have been a sign that said LICK ME.”
― Laini Taylor

“Be that cat! she reminded herself. The one that stayed out of reach, and never - ever purred.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“She was all dark-eyed intensity. Something was lost in her. Karou saw it and mourned. War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. Its ugly, and you don't even want to look at it , let alone hang it on the wall, but you have no choice.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

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

“« Papilio stomachus : criaturas frágiles y vulnerables a las heladas y la traición»”
― Laini Taylor, The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“Son criaturas aferrándose a la vida con las manos manchadas. Hay tanto que los separaâ€�, todos los vivos y todos los muertos, pero de momento dejan que todo lo demás se desvanezca y que la mecha arda más brillante y más cerca, de modo que Karou y Akiva casi sienten que se tocan.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Hielo y desenlace. El instante se congeló, imposible. Inimaginable. Real. Todo el ser se puede transformar en un grito, tan rápido como si fuera a lomos del filo de un cuchillo arrojado al aire. A Karou le sucedió. En aquel instante no era músculo y sangre, sino únicamente aire apresurándose para formar un grito que podría haber sido infinito.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Ice and ending. The instant froze, impossible. Unthinkable. True.
Your entire being can become a scream. At the edge of a hurled knife, that fast. Karou’s did. She wasn’t flesh and blood in that instant but only air rushing in to gather for a scream that might never end.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Butâ€� why pain? Couldn’t you give something else? Likeâ€� joy?â€�
“It’s a balance. If it were something easy to give, it would be meaningless.�
Karou said, “You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? Which have you had more of?�
He gave her a long look. “That’s a good point. But I didn’t create the system.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“She looked like a girl who had made her choice. Had she? Everyone thought she had, which almost felt like the same thing. But it wasn’t too late.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone