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Laini Taylor (born December 11, 1971) is an American young adult fantasy author and a finalist for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature. She is best known for the Karou or Daughter of Smoke and Bone series, whose third book appeared in 2014.

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These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

Begat, Done, Forever, Return, Soldier, Soldiers

They were tower stairs, a tight corkscrew down. The spiraling descent made Karou dizzy: down, around, down, around, hypnotic, until it seemed as if she were caught in a purgatory of stairs and would go down like this forever.

Dizzy, Forever, Seemed, Stairs, Tower, Towers

Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of the wind flutes that had filled their caves with music he could not possibly remember. It felt like home.

Beautiful, Eternal, Home, Remember, Song, Wind

Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.

Children, Squandering, Stop, Wait, Waiting

Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

Angel, Doorways, Girl, Monsters, Once Upon A Time, World

Soon, everything else would come rushing at him. Like the ground to a falling man, it would come rushing up and hit him all at once - the place, the company, her words; one implication would lead to another and shatter him - but around that intake of breath the world hung silent and bright, so bright, and Akiva only knew this one thing, and held on to it and wanted to live inside of it and stay there forever. Karou was alive.

Bright, Fall, Hit, Men, Rushing

To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

Burgeoning, Butterfly, Fat, Generations, Stupid

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Become, Book, Character, Connection, Readers, Real

The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?

Audacity, Do You Know, Gift, Know, Knows

I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.

Grandma, Scariest, World

I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist. It’s possible that he is already aware, if only in a ‘don't step on the small girl’ kind of way.

Crush, Girl, Mouth, Mouths, Small, Touch

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

Blood, Chased, Coursed, Fire, Ice, Light

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

Death, Dream, Fill, Life, Men, Soul

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

Remember You, Remembers You, Trying, Life, Living, Easy

He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.

Cat, Curl, Feelings, Like, Sweet

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.

Apart, Currently, Feet, Know, Love, Two

The choice I mean is to protect our own innocents from the seraphim, instead of slaughtering theirs. " "There are no innocent seraphim, said the wolf. " "That's what they say when they kill our children.

Children, Choices, Innocent, Mean, Slaughtering

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.

Condition, Cry, Dragons, Looked, Monsters, Village

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Appreciate, Brain, Waste, Wish

You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

Children, Fire, Land, Lost, Rain, Window

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