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1 " 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 , Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
2 " 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. "
3 " 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. "
4 " 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. "
5 " 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. "
6 " Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic. "
7 " He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum. "
8 " 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. "
9 " My tiny scary friend is coming "
10 " Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony. "
11 " And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always. "
12 " 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. "
13 " 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. "
14 " You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of? "
15 " 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. "
16 " She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. "
17 " 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. "
18 " Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. "
19 " 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. "
20 " If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real. "
