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Laini Taylor is an American author known for her fantasy novels. Born on December 11, 1971, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Taylor's works are acclaimed for their rich imagination, unique narrative style, and profound character development.

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“Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go.”

Life Hate Quotes Fantasy Anger Vengeance

Book:Strange the Dreamer

Source: Strange the Dreamer

“You think good people can't hate?" she asked. "You think good people don't kill?"[...}"Good people do all the things bad people do, Lazlo. It's just that when they do them, they call it justice.”

Hate Kill Good Vs Bad

Book:Strange the Dreamer

Source: Strange the Dreamer

“The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion—to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering—and cause it—and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.”

Book:Strange the Dreamer

Source: Strange the Dreamer

“The riddle is: How might a war end? Annihilation is one way. Joram’s way. He did this, not you. You dreamed a different way. Akiva, too. You, the pair of you, you had the capacity not to hate. The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?”

Book:Days of Blood & Starlight

Source: Days of Blood & Starlight

“So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness - self-preservation of an uglier stripe. And thus did they harden themselves, by choosing to meet hate with hate.”

Hate Cynicism Self Preservation

Book:Strange the Dreamer

Source: Strange the Dreamer

“Algunos tipos de miseria te hacen odiar el mundo, pero otros te hacen odiarte a ti misma.”

Hate Misery Yourself Odio Miseria

Book:My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter.”

Hate Misery Cheese Butter

Book:My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

Source: My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

“If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.”

Ifs Faces Hate Easy Letting Go Relax Your Face

Author:Laini Taylor

“So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.”

Way Bigs Hate Grows Interesting

Author:Laini Taylor

“Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.”

Made Hate Mercy Mad Lakes Alchemy

Book:Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

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Born: December 11, 1971
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