858 Quotes by Laini Taylor

With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.

I have no strategy. I just want to skip all this and get to the part where he’s my boyfriend. Not to mention, you know, the part where he’s aware I exist.

He understood in that moment that he was smaller than he had ever known, and the realm of the unknowable was bigger.

The way he looked at her, she felt like some kind of miracle, as though his dreamer’s eyes cast her in their glow of wonder.

With his fort of books the hobgoblin had come to a smooching scene and shouted for them to pipe down.

That was what had finally broken through her blindness. Her father had saved his people and destroyed himself. As strong as he looked, inside he was a ruin, or perhaps a funeral pyre, like the Cusp- only instead of melted bones of ijji, he was made up of the skeletons of babies and children, including, as he had always believed, his own child: her. This was his remorse.

Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to frost and betrayal.

It is bodies that makes us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hand to hold?

I think you’re a fairy tale. I think you’re magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you’ll let me be in your story.