As for Ellie, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitin wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimera, children of regret...

— Laini Taylor

As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.

— Laini Taylor

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

— Laini Taylor

As to having a preference, that was new too. You take what you're given, and you're grateful for it. Once that message is well and truly ingrained in you, it feels like vainglory to imagine one's own likes and dislikes could matter to other people.

— Laini Taylor

Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It's who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.

— Laini Taylor

Be a Samurai. Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky.

— Laini Taylor

Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the humph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.

— Laini Taylor

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

— Laini Taylor

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

— Laini Taylor

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

— Laini Taylor