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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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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.
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...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.
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A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?
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A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.
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Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
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It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.
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As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.
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It was brave, countered Issa. It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.
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The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?
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Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?
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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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I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.
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Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
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There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.
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Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.
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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.
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He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.
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Follow me, said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.
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