Yeah? Okay," she said, staring up into the stars. "Let's see. You know how, at the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet wakes up in the crypt and Romeo's already dead? He thought she was dead so he killed himself right next to her?" "Yeah. That was awesome." A pause, followed by "Ow," suggested elbow punctuation on the part of Mik. Karou ignored it. "Well, imagine if she woke up and he was still alive, but..." She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But he had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.
She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different. - Laini Taylor
She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.
- 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
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? - Laini Taylor
Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?
Follow me," said Karou. As if he could have done anything else. - Laini Taylor
Follow me," said Karou. As if he could have done anything else.
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
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It…
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
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 …
Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic. - Laini Taylor
Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.
It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth. - Laini Taylor
It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.
She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. - Laini Taylor
She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
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