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What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.
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I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.
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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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Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.
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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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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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Anyway, since when are you shy? Just talk to him already!' ' 'And say what? Nice fiddling, handsome man?' 'Absolutely.
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Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!
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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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The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her. And it came true that night, and many nights after. A brief and shining span of happiness, it was the pivot point around which his whole life spun.
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No, tiny violent one.
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Follow me, said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.
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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
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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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Kissing can ruin lives. Lips touch sometimes teeth clash. New hunger is born with a throb and caution falls away. A cursed girl with lips still moist from her first kiss might feel suddenly wild like a little monsoon. She might forget her curse just long enough to get careless and let it come true. She might kill everyone she loves.
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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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Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope...is hope. You don't need tokens for it - it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.
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