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It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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California
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This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.
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Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.
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Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-
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That is your legend? Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?
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Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?
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To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.
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It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.
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Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
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It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.
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How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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Follow me, said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.
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You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?
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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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I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.
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Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
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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
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.
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I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
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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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