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“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

“Be a Samurai.
Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“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

“Scientist and smart fellow learner-of-stuff, want to do samurai-monster training with us? We intend to become dangerous.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Cake for later, cake as a way of life.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

“World peace for dinner," mused Mik, scratching his beard stubble. "Does that come with fries?"

"It freaking better," said Zuzana. "Or I will send it freaking back.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Let me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

“I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

“I’m lucky I’m even alive,â€� she announced. “When I was little, I sucked on duck eyeballs.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“The humans were sitting cross-legged on the floor in a circle of soldiers, pointing at things and learning more Chimaera words: salt, rat, eat, which unfortunate combination led to Zuzana rejecting the meat on her plate.
"I think it's chicken," Mik said, taking a bite.
"I'm just saying there were a lot more rats around here earlier."
"Circumstantial evidence." Mik took another bite and said, in passable Chimaera and to guffaws of laughter, "Salty delicious rat."
"It's chicken," insisted one of the Shadows That Live. Karou wasn't sure which it was, but she was flapping her arms like wings, and even producing chicken bones to prove it.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“There was, between her and Mik, a fairy-tale promise: that when he had performed three heroic tasks, he could ask for her hand. She’d meant it in jest, but he’d taken it to heart, and was only one task down out of three—though secretly Zuzana accepted his fixing the air-conditioning in their last hotel room as a heroic act and counted it.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“It had worked. She understood. Things can kill you. All kinds of things, like toys, or older brothers. And as she'd grown up, that list had just gotten longer and longer.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“No, tiny violent one.”
― Laini Taylor

“When he started to renew his protest, she held up a hand. "What are you more afraid of: them or me with low blood sugar?”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

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

“All of this cuteness, it was one of nature's great bait and switches, because... that wasn't all there was to Zuzana Nováková. Not even a little bit.

Deciding to take her on was akin to a fish deciding idly to gobble up that pretty light bobbing in the shadows and then--OH GOD THE TEETH THE HORROR!--meeting the anglerfish on the other side.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I’m not going to wait one more second for that.”
― Laini Taylor, Night of Cake & Puppets

“Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Think of the Christians fed to the lions because they wouldn't renounce their faith. As if their god wouldn't forgive them their desire to life?..."
"Are you kidding me? You're going to blame the Christians, not the Romans? How about they just don't throw them to the goddamn lions in the first place? Don't delude yourself. You're the monster here.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“- 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

“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

“Beso tus ojos y dejo mi corazón en tus manos”
― Laini Taylor, Dream of Gods & Monsters

“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