858 Quotes by Laini Taylor

The monks kept a sharp eye on him, determined to keep him free of sin – and of joy, which, if not explicitly a sin, at least clears a path to it.

Many a choice is made in this way: by pretending it makes itself. And many a fate is decided by those who cannot decide.

Long life is a burden, when it’s spent in misery.

It was not a happy ending, but a happy middle – at last, after so many fraught beginnings. Their story would be long. Much would be written of them, some of it in verse, some sung, and some in plain prose, in volumes to be penned for the archives of cities not yet built.

The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn’t.

It’s not stalking if you don’t follow them home, right?

Wasn’t that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, ‘My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.

One can’t be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

It’s alright, you know... To love him... Please, child, do you think I don’t know you at all? I’m not going to say there is some easy future for you, or even any future at all. I only want you not to punish yourself. You’ve always felt the truth in him, then and now. Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don’t have to be ashamed.