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Love is a luxury."" No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.Laini Taylor
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She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust. .Laini Taylor
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I'm afraid they're in love, " he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.Laini Taylor
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I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.Laini Taylor
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It's not like there's a law against flying."" Yes there is. The law of gravity.Laini Taylor
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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
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And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not–they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.Laini Taylor
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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 can make things happen, almost like magic.Laini Taylor
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Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.Laini Taylor
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He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum.Laini Taylor
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I was going to say the beginning is the good part, when it's all sparks and sparkles, before they are inevitably unmasked as assholes.Laini Taylor
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My tiny scary friend is comingLaini Taylor
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Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.Laini Taylor
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And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.Laini Taylor
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In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens. He moved at speed, onward toward another human city to find another doorway bitter with the devil's magic, and after that another, until all bore the black handprint.. Once all the doors were marked, the end would begin. And it would begin with fire.Laini Taylor
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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
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You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?Laini Taylor
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It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default–like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.Laini Taylor
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She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.Laini Taylor
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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
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Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.Laini Taylor
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She may have been the one whose name meant music, but his sounded like it. Saying it made her want to sing it, to lean out a window and call him home. To whisper it in the dark.Laini Taylor
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If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.Laini Taylor
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What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?Laini Taylor
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..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in.Laini Taylor
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Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played.Laini Taylor
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...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.Laini Taylor
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The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deLaini Taylor
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Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene. But she wasn't. She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might expand and.. cancel her. She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.Laini Taylor
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That widow’s peak is preposterous. God. It really makes you feel the sad dearth of widow’s peaks in daily life. We could, like, use him as breeding stock to seed widow’s peaks into the populace.”“ My god. What’s with all the mating and seed talk?”“ I’m just saying, ” Zuzana said reasonably. “I’m crazy about Mik, okay, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do my part for the proliferation of widow’s peaks. As a favor to the gene pool. You would, too, right? Or maybe…” She shot Karou a sidelong glance. “You already have? .Laini Taylor
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As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...Laini Taylor
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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 whumph 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
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Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.Laini Taylor
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You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs.Laini Taylor
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Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?Laini Taylor
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The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster! ' and looked behind him.Laini Taylor
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It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster! ’ and looked behind himLaini Taylor