Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.
Laini Taylor
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Chico
California
Works
Faced
Feet
Pairs
Looking
Pretending
Doesn
Stone
Magnets
Two
Impression
Stoic
Even
Apart
Magnet
Love
Ten
Currently
Stones
Pair
More quotes by Laini Taylor
Love is a luxury. No. Love is an element. An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.
Laini Taylor
I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.
Laini Taylor
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.
Laini Taylor
What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.
Laini Taylor
Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.
Laini Taylor
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
Laini Taylor
The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.
Laini Taylor
Anyway, since when are you shy? Just talk to him already!' ' 'And say what? Nice fiddling, handsome man?' 'Absolutely.
Laini Taylor
Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?
Laini Taylor
Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.
Laini Taylor
We only get to be one person we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.
Laini Taylor
Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.
Laini Taylor
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.
Laini Taylor
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
Laini Taylor
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.
Laini Taylor
No, tiny violent one.
Laini Taylor
She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.
Laini Taylor
Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.
Laini Taylor
Is that all souls are for? For when we die? No. They're for living, too.
Laini Taylor
Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.
Laini Taylor