858 Quotes by Laini Taylor

No, I have to lure him out, like a will-o’-the-wisp, tease him deeper and deeper into the forest until he is lost and doomed. Without the forest or the doom – just the luring. Like a Venus flytrap that says I am a delicious flower come taste me and then snap! Devour. Without the devouring.

My people understood that time is an ocean, not a river. It doesn’t flow away and pour itself out, done and gone. It simply is – eternal and entire. Mortals might move through it in one direction, but that’s no reflection of its true nature – only of our limitations. Past and future are our own constructs. And as for myths, some are made up, nothing but fantasy. But some myths are true. Some have already been lived. And in the drift of time, eternal and entire, some haven’t.

It wasn’t even an alternate version of his life. He hadn’t gone back in time and done everything differently to get to this place. It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.

Hate could do that, too – live off nothing but itself – but not forever.

What good were bright gods who only watched from afar while dark gods strove every moment to devour you?

This was a game that kill could not win – or, if it did, it would be an unbearable win that destroyed the very meaning of winning.

And what’s the point of being young if you can’t ignore all advice?” Master.

Her lips were still moving, whispering the same words over and over. “They were all I could carry. They were all I could carry.

Karou was plagued by the notion that she wasn’t whole. She didn’t know what this meant, but it was a lifelong feeling, a sensation akin to having forgotten something. She’d tried describing it to Issa once, when she was a girl. “It’s like you’re standing in the kitchen, and you know you went in there for a reason, but you can’t think of what that reason is, no matter what.