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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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“Once upon a time, a sister made a vow she didn't know how to break, and it broke her instead. Once upon a time, a girl did the impossible, but she did it just a little too late.”

Love Dream Girl Sisters Sisterhood The Impossible

Book:Muse of Nightmares

Source: Muse of Nightmares

“..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.”

Love Desire Destiny Fate Lonely Longing Karou Akiva

Book:Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“What she had shared with Akiva could not be touched by shame. Madrigal lifted her voice to say, "We dreamed together of the world remade.”

Love Hope Sadness Longing

Book:Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?" "You think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way. There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale." "Sounds dangerous." "Very, so think twice." "No need," he said. "You're worth it.”

Love Humor Marriage Engagement Proposals

Book:Days of Blood & Starlight

Source: Days of Blood & Starlight

“Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me.”

Love Yearning Cats

Book:Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“There was a man who loved the moon, but whenever he tried to embrace her, she broke into a thousand pieces and left him drenched, with empty arms.”

Love Moon Heartache Unrequited Love

Book:Strange the Dreamer

Source: Strange the Dreamer

“I...I sang," she whispered, "if that matters," and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbegotten warrior, fiercest of them all, had crouched in an icy stream bed to sing a chimera soul into her canteen, because she hadn't known what else to do. The singing wouldn't have mattered, but she wasn't going to tell Liraz that. If Ziri's soul was in that canteen, Karou would happily learn whatever song Liraz had sung and make it part of her resurrection ritual forever, just so that the angel would never feel that she'd been foolish.”

Love Soul Singing Karou Butterly In A Bottle Glean Liraz Ziri

Book:Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, could... countervail each other?”

Love Pain Suffering Friendship

Book:Strange the Dreamer

Source: Strange the Dreamer

“And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.”

Love Redemption Selfishness

Book:Dreams of Gods & Monsters

Source: Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.”

Book:Strange the Dreamer

Source: Strange the Dreamer

“Her heart was gasping, empty. Whatever resistance had been in her, she gave it up. Her hands knew what they wanted: They wanted Akiva, the spark and heat of him. Even in the warmth of the Moroccan spring, she was cold, as if the only thing with a chance of warming her was him.”

Love Hope Longing Longing For Love

Book:Daughter of Smoke & Bone

Source: Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“All evening long, real snow would fall from the ceiling to glitter on the lashes of dancing girls and ardent boys, but Neve and the Dreamer didn't linger. They had other things to do: *all* of them. All the things, dreamed and undreamed, in the depth and breadth of the whole spinning world.”

Love Dreams All The Things

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

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

“There was a word from a myth: sathaz . It was the desire to possess that which can never be yours. It meant senseless, hopeless yearning, the way a gutter child might dream of being king, and it came from the tale of the man who loved the moon.”

Love Yearning Laini Taylor Strange The Dreamer Muse Of Nightmares

Book:Muse of Nightmares

Source: Muse of Nightmares

“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

“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.”

Love Moments Running Fall Stars Realizing Space Forever Losing Eternity Gravity Pitching

Author:Laini Taylor

“The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.”

Knows Love Two Feet Ten Stones Impression Pairs Pretending Magnet Stoic

Book:Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

Source: Dreams of Gods and Monsters: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy

“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.”

Love Wells Long Age Sound Middle Fine Understood Affair Ill Pale One Love Love Affair Middle Aged Insipid

Author:Laini Taylor

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Born: December 11, 1971
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