858 Quotes by Laini Taylor

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

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.

Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

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 and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

To take from the universe, you must give.

It's not like there's a law against flying.""Yes there is. The law of gravity.

Love is a luxury.""No. Love is an element."An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?

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 smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.