Top 100 Quotes About Laini
#1. So much to rue, but to what end? All unlived lives cancel one another out.
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#2. Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
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#3. My heart feels zested. Finely shredded and ready to add to cake batter. It doesn't hurt, because it's not there anymore. Like the angel's chest, with her empty heart hole - but without the sparkler.
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#4. He was inside that realm of mind, the private universe, the infinite sphere of himself where he went to work magic.
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#5. Her despair may have gone, but it had left its heaviness draped over her, thick and bleak.
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#6. When he started to renew his protest, she held up a hand. What are you more afraid of: them or me with low blood sugar?
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#7. Back home in Florida, in a small town in Apalachicola National Forest, everyone had known who she was.
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#8. To be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands.
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#9. I don't know your customs, but here, if you don't want to frighten someone, you don't go looming over their sleeping body with knives.
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#11. He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.
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#13. If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
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#14. I love books. Not just for what they contain. I love them as objects too, as ever-present reminders of what they contain, and because they are beautiful.
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#15. And this totally normal conversation unspools from there, covering the basics: family, siblings, school, favorite composers, favorite movies, favorite wood (for carving puppets), the prehistory of the sandwich, and whether the ancient Romans got their togas caught in the spokes of their unicycles
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#16. Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
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#17. So, you wouldn't marry me."
"Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!"
"Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other
"
Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.
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#18. You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.
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#19. Something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.
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#20. The world was carnage. You either suffered it or inflicted it.
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#21. Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.
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#22. It is bodies that makes us real. What is a soul without eyes to look through or hand to hold?
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#23. That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?
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#24. When an essential one comes along, you'll know,
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#25. It seemed she was in a cathedral - if, that is, the earth itself were to dream a cathedral into being over thousands of years of water weeping through stone.
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#26. To eat or not to eat, that is the question: whether 'tis Nobler in the stomach to suffer the Slings and Arrows of outrageous Hunger (while keeping mouthparts in pristine kissing condition) or to take Spoon against Slice of cake, and
"Yes, please," my stomach pipes up.
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#27. I almost never like people, even in tiny doses. But I never get tired of being with you.
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#28. I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.
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#29. It mattered. They mattered, and whatever it was that had made them not kill each other on Bullfinch beach all those years ago ... mattered.
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#30. Liraz may have captured Ziri's soul like a butterfly in a bottle, but that was only a formality. It was already hers.
And, clearly, judging by the state of her laugh-sobbing in Karou's arms, hers was his, too.
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#33. The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.
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#34. Her soul was poisoned soil in which nothing good could grow.
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#35. Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.
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#36. He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.
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#37. But wasn't that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.
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#38. I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.
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#39. I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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#40. She'd poured so much of herself into keeping it buried, sometimes it felt like any energy she might have had for joy or love or light went there instead. You only had so much to give.
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#41. There were crinkles at the corners of his eyes, which were merry and asquint with unselfconscious happiness. The change was profound. If he was beautiful when grave-and he was-smiling, he was nothing short of glorious.
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#42. Now, let's not be hasty,' said Mik 'What exactly is a samurai, really? Do you think that's something we should know before we wish it?'
'Good point. It might turn us both into Japenese men.' She squinted at him. 'Would you still love me if I were a Japenese man?'
'Of course
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#43. What?" demanded Liraz. "Why are you laughing?" "Because life's a bastard," was all Akiva could say. "Well then," was his sister's flat reply. "I guess we fit right in.
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#44. There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward - toward what?
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#45. The air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
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#46. Loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve - like the soul's version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable. And
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#47. Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. I'm sorry if my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing.
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#48. Elemental. Love is an element, Karou remembered from a long, long time ago, and she felt like she was floating.
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#49. And that was why she was angry. Because they weren't giving her a reason to be angry.
Feelings. Were. Stupid.
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#50. From: Zuzana Subject: Miss Radio Silence To: Karou
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#51. yet that one thing - the color of their skin - would, in the real world, change everything. Sarai
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#52. I love you, crossbar,' whispered Karou and petted it.
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#53. She tasted of hope. Oh. What does that taste like? Pollen and stars, the Fallen said.
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#54. All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean."
Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.
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#55. And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.
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#56. Wishes, for example, for things like itches.
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#57. Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I'm not going to wait one more second for that.
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#58. Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love.
It did not end well.
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#59. A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.
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#60. There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.
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#61. In all that was to happen, there would be that feeling of inevitability and rightness, and the sense that the universe was conspiring in it. It would be easy.
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#62. Now, she had to be strong enough to look weak.
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#63. 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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#65. Liraz's smile was like the love child of a shark and a scimitar.
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#66. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.
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#67. Can you believe him? Does he think if he just dangle his boy bits at you like a cat toy you'll go scampering after him?"
"Of course he thinks that," said Karou. "This is his idea of a romantic gesture.
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#68. I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.
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#69. 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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#70. The simplicity of it filled her with warmth. They had looked for her, and found her; she wasn't alone, after all.
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#71. And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.
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#72. There's a long pause.
But it's not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I'm the treasure from the high shelf that someone's just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don't mind being looked at like this. I don't mind it at all.
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#73. Well, Karou had wanted to retort, with all the gravity and maturity she could muster. Duh.
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#74. My head feels like a snow globe that's been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.
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#75. A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.
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#77. You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe."
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe.
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#78. So while his uncle taunted him, probing for a weak spot-it wasn't enough to kill; he had to torment - Akiva heard what he said, but none of it touched him. It was like threatening darkness at the break of day.
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#79. 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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#80. Nd when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.
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#81. Watching her, Brimstone added, 'I hope, child, but I don't wish. There's a difference.
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#82. If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.
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#84. It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.
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#85. She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might expand and ... cancel her.
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#86. And holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.
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#87. Sorry," said Mik. "I think you neutralized our capacity for surprise. You should have started with that, and *then* told us you raise the dead.
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#89. She understood now why pain was the tithe for magic: It was more powerful than joy. Than anything.
Than hope?
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#91. Liraz was special. Specially antisocial. Spectacularly, even.
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#92. 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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#93. I have been known to say that the devil gave me my first violin.
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#94. Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.
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#95. As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough
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#96. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.
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#97. They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.
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#98. 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.
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#99. I think they both have to be lucky. It's like, luck friction. One's flint and one's steel, striking together to make fire.
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#100. These weren't her folk, but ... they were, and maybe that meant that anyone could be anyone's, which was a sort of nice thing to think, with the world falling apart.
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