...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

— Laini Taylor

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

— Laini Taylor

Did you know that make shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... It's true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?

— Laini Taylor

Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?

— Laini Taylor

Don't look at me like that," said RUA." Like what?"" Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.

— Laini Taylor

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.

— Laini Taylor

For the way 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.

— Laini Taylor

Get out of doors, Strange. Breathe air, see things. A man should have squint lines from looking at the horizon, not just from reading in dim light.

— 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 was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

— Laini Taylor

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything.

— Laini Taylor