Quote

...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.

Laini Taylor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Chico
California
Place
Around
Cupped
Different
Hiding
Thing
Wings
World
Knew
Called
Though
Happiness

More quotes by Laini Taylor

Image
I start to wonder if I’m being creepy. I mean, I am creeping. Does creep-ing automatically make one creep-y? Or are there dispensations for…romance? I bet all stalkers believe they’re being romantic. I did it for love, officer.
Laini Taylor
Image
How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
Laini Taylor
Image
It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?
Laini Taylor
Image
Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better.
Laini Taylor
Image
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.
Laini Taylor
Image
I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.
Laini Taylor
Image
Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.
Laini Taylor
Image
It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.
Laini Taylor
Image
Jael returned the lazy smile. You're not my type. Well, you're not anybody's type, said Hazael. No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.
Laini Taylor
Image
You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
Laini Taylor
Image
It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.
Laini Taylor
Image
Follow me, said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.
Laini Taylor
Image
Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
Laini Taylor
Image
We dreamed together of the world remade.
Laini Taylor
Image
Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.
Laini Taylor
Image
Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
Laini Taylor
Image
There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.
Laini Taylor
Image
It seemed she was in a cathedral—if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.
Laini Taylor
Image
Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.
Laini Taylor
Image
...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
Laini Taylor