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I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

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Laini Taylor
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: December 11
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California
Fleetingly
Gathered
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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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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.
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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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Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.
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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.
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Like attracts like, beauty finds beauty, and freaks look on from the smoking section, aching.
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Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
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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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Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!
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The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.
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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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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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I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.
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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.
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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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I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.
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Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.
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She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.
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