858 Quotes by Laini Taylor

Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and – butter and cheese not withstanding – Neve had no question that Spear was the latter.

And none of us became children to be orphans.

Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It’s just that when they do them, they call it justice.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it’s hurtling forward-toward what?

Sometimes a moment is so remarkable that it carves out a space in time and spins there, while the world rushes on around it. This was one such.

Few will ever witness an act destined to become legend. How does it happen, that the events of a day, or a night – or a life – are translated into story? There is a gap in between, where awe has carved a space that words have yet to fill.

His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it – a city that had vanished in the mists of time.

In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil’s magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint... Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.

She tasted of hope. Oh. What does that taste like? Pollen and stars, the Fallen said.