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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
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Laini Taylor
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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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.
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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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She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.
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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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Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.
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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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Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant- Meant! she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush, brought her against his chest as if they were still dancing. She fought backward for space. As if what were meant? You, he said. And me.
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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.
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Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.
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Madrigal sniffed herself. I'm almost sure I don't smell. Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.
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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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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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Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?
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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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That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.
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Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)
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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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I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
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