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Laini Taylor is an American novelist acclaimed for her imaginative and lyrical works in fantasy and young adult fiction. Her storytelling explores identity, creativity, and emotional depth, inspiring readers to embrace their unique voices and aspirations. Taylor's narratives encourage courage, reflection, and the pursuit of dreams, demonstrating how imagination and perseverance can transform life experiences. She motivates audiences to value artistry, resilience, and self-expression, leaving a memorable impact on readers worldwide.
"As to having a preference, that was new too. You take what you're given and you're grateful for it. Once that message is well and truly ingrained in you, it feels like vainglory to imagine one's own likes and dislikes could matter to other people."
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"He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all."
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"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."
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"When they had hurried to the train station with their violin cases, they had drawn almost as many stares as they would on any normal day when their hair was to their knees and sheeting behind them like red silk. A poetic fruit-seller had told them once that they looked like dryads, and they did still, only now they looked like dryads who had tired of snagging their hair on brambles and sliced it all off on the edge of a knife."
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"You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?"
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"Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.And never the twain shall meet."
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"Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile."
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"It's alright, you know...To love him...Please, child, do you think I don't know you at all? I'm not going to say there is some easy future for you, or even any future at all. I only want you not to punish yourself. You've always felt the truth in him, then and now. Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed."
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"Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything."