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Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5) QUOTES

Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5) QUOTES

1 " I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.) "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

2 " I don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

3 " His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

4 " Life doesn’t need magic to be magical.
(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.) "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

5 " What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

6 " Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

7 " Let me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

8 " My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile I’ve ever unleashed in my entire life. I didn’t even know my face could do this. It’s like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

9 " It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

10 " I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.

It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

11 " The eye’s perception of texture is pale compared to the lips’, and I didn’t know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

12 " I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

13 " It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

14 " There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

15 " My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually a marionette brought to life by the Blue Fairy, and the only way I can gain a soul is if a human falls in love with me. Help a puppet out? —b) Hi. I’m Zuzana. The touch of my lips imparts immortality. Just sayin’. —c) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I think I might like you. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

16 " I start to wonder if I’m being creepy. I mean, I am creeping. Does creep-ing automatically make one creep-y? Or are there dispensations for…romance? I bet all stalkers believe they’re being romantic. I did it for love, officer. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

17 " It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right? "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

18 " I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

19 " Me, sweep him off his feet? I know. The laws of the jungle and romance novels would have it the other way around, but I’m not going to wait one more second for that. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)

20 " Love affair. Doesn’t that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it’s a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one. "

― Laini Taylor , Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5)