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Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.
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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.
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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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And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.
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The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.
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Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)
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Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.
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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
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It was brave, countered Issa. It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.
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