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Love is a luxury. No. Love is an element. An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.
Laini Taylor
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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.
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