She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

- Laini Taylor

Follow me," said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.

- Laini Taylor

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

- Laini Taylor

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

- Laini Taylor

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It…

- Laini Taylor

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 …

- Laini Taylor

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

- Laini Taylor

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

- Laini Taylor

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

- Laini Taylor