A biography for Laini Taylorhasn’t been written yet.
“On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.”
“She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.”
“I don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.”
“I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.”
“It was hope, dying unsurprised.”
“The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.”
“And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.”
“If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.”
“It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.”
“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.”
“You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?”
“Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?”
“...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.”
“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 de”
“The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.”
“The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.”
“Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.”
“The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.”
“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
“He drifted about with his head full of myths, always at least half lost in some otherland of story. Demons and wingsmiths, seraphim and spirits, he love it all.”