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 smi...”

“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...”

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

“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 m...”

“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 in...”

“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. Me...”

“Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.And never the twain shall meet.”

“I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.”

“And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were notthey were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.”

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

“You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?”

“It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a defaultlike it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cove...”

“It's not like there's 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 he'd dived behind her and cowered.”

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's 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.”

“He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.”

“Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, c...”

“And Esme remembered in a rush--the wolfsong, the haunting, lyrical spirals of it in the dawn quiet and the feeling of euphoria that had attended it. Even in recollection the howling uplifted her li...”