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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: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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California
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Fairy
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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.
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If it's not chocolate, it's not breakfast.
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... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.
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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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Is that all souls are for? For when we die? No. They're for living, too.
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No, tiny violent one.
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Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)
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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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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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You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?
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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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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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...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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You were true to her, even if she was not to you. Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength.” “Strength,” she said with a little laugh. “I gave her strength, and look what she did with it.
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I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.
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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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But he is pretty. God, I hope he's not an asshole. Do you think there's any chance he's both non-orifice and single? I mean, seriously. What are the chances?
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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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I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.
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