Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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"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."
"I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel."
"He danced with the sky instead, and the sky dropped him like a rotten plum."
"My tiny scary friend is coming"
"Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony."
"And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always."
"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."
"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."
"You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?"
"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."
"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."
"Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world."
"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."
"If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real."
"What do you think I live on, rainwater and daydreams?"
"..and when he let her go, it was as if she had been filled and didn't realize it until he pulled away and the absence rushed back in."
"Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played."
"...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"
"Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground."
"She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx."
"Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal."
"You've got to have, like, a lentil for a soul to hate wiener dogs."
"Did you know that mako shark fetuses eat each other in the womb?... Its true. Only cannibal fetuses survive to be born. Can you imagine if people were like that?"
"As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret..."