858 Quotes by Laini Taylor

You can be on the same side and have different ideas.

There was always, among them, such a stew of envy and longing. They hated the humans, but they also wanted to be them. They wanted to punish them, and they wanted to be embraced by them. To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone’s child. And since they couldn’t have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.

You just mingled saliva with the most beautiful boy ever to tread the hallways of Saint Pock’s. Saliva. There’s DNA in saliva. You’re like carrying his cells in your mouth like one of those weird frogs that incubates its eggs in its cheeks.

Karou loved Zuzana for her willingness to play out such silliness on a long kite string.

On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky.

Now more than ever she struck him like a fairy in a tale – a haunted one with shadowed eyes and a sting like a scorpion.

So Sarai gave in to the scream that night, and the dark things within her took wing. They came boiling out between her lips, and they weren’t demons after all, but moths.

And so Grief and Shame abided in adjoining rooms with the door shut between them, holding their pain in their arms instead of each other.

Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.