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1 " With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end. "
― Luke Taylor , The Knight Ascendant
2 " Great relationships create great characters. Make them feel real. Alive. Tangible and unforgettable. Bad relationships kill them. Bury them. Make you wish they hadn't wasted your precious time. "
― Luke Taylor
3 " He'd failed them, the swimming goldfish of his life's tiny existence whom he held so dear in his heart; he'd turned his muses into mistakes and no one knew the difference but him. "
― Luke Taylor , The Quiet Kill
4 " The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules. "
― Luke Taylor , Shatterpoint Alpha
5 " He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't. He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.So he wasn't going to now. "
6 " His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act. "
7 " Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling. "
8 " Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers. "
9 " I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes. "
10 " They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand. "
11 " Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination. "
12 " Life is about connection, not perfection. "
13 " To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide. "
14 " I just want you to know, I love the way you look at me. Make's me feel like everything's gonna be okay. "
15 " You stole my heart before I could give it to you. "
― Luke Taylor , Vault of Dreams
16 " I've seen a lot in my years, Aerlyn. And when I look at you, I see a rose, not a thistle."Her heart caught in her throat and she nearly snorted."You see what you want to see."Quill chuckled to himself. At the thorns in her voice."As do you, Thistle. Can you tell me what I can see any more than I can tell you want you see?""No.""Then let me see what I want to see." He said, turning to face her, and she jabbed her midnight gaze at him before twisting her head to see the many sorrows sleeping beneath his own lake blue eyes. "Because I see what no one else sees. "
17 " Marland sighed. Her guesses were pretty good, but that was the bulk of her career in a nutshell. "
― Luke Taylor , Evening Wolves
18 " Then he thought of Marland just now, on the edge of the hill, how the newborn sun flamed over her shoulder, having burned through the fog of the night; how the tops of the trees were beneath her feet and the city of Crescent was small enough to fit in the palm of her hand. Her face could change like the sky itself and like the sky never lost its radiance and beauty. Sierra Marland was a facade with no end and yet she had been as genuine and true to him as the heavens were blue. "
19 " Her face, as God had made it, was beyond compare. "
20 " Your face says much, thief. Trust me, I'm the one who's looking at it. "
