“Humans had a genius for devising instruments of death. Their lives were so short and they seemed to value them so little, sending waves of men to clash in battlefields, then weighing victory by the piled corpses. And if they held their own lives so worthless, the lives of everything else were as fruit to pluck from trees.”

American young adult fantasy author

Laini Taylor is an American young adult fantasy author. She is a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature and is best known for the Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, Strange the Dreamer, and Muse of Nightmares. Her work sits in the fantasy branch of young adult fiction and has drawn particular notice for its imaginative worlds and series writing. She is represented here with 121 quotes on the site.