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Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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Chico
California
Lived
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Making
Girl
Hole
Time
Monsters
Holes
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Sky

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Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.
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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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...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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...the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
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It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.
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With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.
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Follow me, said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.
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It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.
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It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.
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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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Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.
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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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I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.
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You mean he came to your school? The scandalous rodent-loaf!
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A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.
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Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!
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Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
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My tiny scary friend is coming
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