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We only get to be one person we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope...is hope. You don't need tokens for it - it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
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Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant- Meant! she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant? You, he said. And me.
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She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.
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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
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Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.
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Is that all souls are for? For when we die? No. They're for living, too.
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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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