Laini Taylor
Laini Taylor
Laini Tayloris an American young-adult fantasy author. She is best known for the Karou or Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, whose third book appeared in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth11 December 1971
CountryUnited States of America
boys bird looks
There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large.
angel once-upon-a-time devil
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.
dream powerful book
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It’s who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you.
respect peace war
Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.
letting-go hate relax
If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.
rain home dark
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.
magic wish false-hope
Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.
moving fall hard-times
The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
heart ashamed
Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.
memories worst-moments joy
The worst moment of one's life could be seared into the memory, brighter than any joy.
strange persons strange-things
Love makes a person do strange things.
magic shapes bones
...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.
dragons village monsters
It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.
home stalking ifs
It’s not stalking if you don't follow them home, right?