6 Quotes & Sayings By Lani Wendt Young

As a professional writer, Lani Wendt Young has been credited by the Associated Press as the "master of the short short story." She has written for "Oprah Magazine" and other publications, and is the editor of "The Writer's Digest" fiction magazine. She is also an award-winning author of ten novels, including her most recent release, "The Lucky One," which was inspired by her years spent in the North Woods of Alaska. Ms. Young taught English at South High School in Milwaukee for twenty-five years Read more

She lives with her husband in New York City.

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Yes, I’m Daniel Tahi." I know what your lips taste like. I know you roll your eyes when you think someone is an idiot. I know that you wish you were six inches shorter because you hate being taller than most of the boys you've ever met. Your name is tattooed across my chest and written on my heart. You are a fire daughter of earth, fanua afi and I am vasa loloa, son of the ocean. I am yours.. And you can’t even remember who I am. . Lani Wendt Young
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You will be the one chosen to reach out to embrace man once again as the heart. So that all will be as it should. ‘Fatu-ma-le-ele-ele’ You will give your fire so that Man may live. And he will give his heart so that earth may live. Thus it has been spoken. Lani Wendt Young
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Excuse me? You're the one who was out to mislead me with your alluring bimbo slinkiness! What if I had believed your act last night? What if I had fallen deeply and madly in love with you? You would have had the blood of my love-sickness on your hands, Leila Folger. Lani Wendt Young
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His fingers painted my skin with ruby red patterns of desire. In Keahi’s kiss I could taste the red burn of chili encrusted in the rich sweetness of melted chocolate. I breathed in his scent and it spoke to me of vanilla. The ink of my malu tattoo began to burn, searing markings of fiery joy. Lani Wendt Young
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You don't love someone because they're a dream of perfection. You love them because of the way they meet their challenges, how they struggle to overcome. You love them because together, you bring out the best in each other. Lani Wendt Young