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
kissing lasts firsts
It was Kizzy's first kiss and maybe it was her last and it was delicious.
fighting looks killing
What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?
no-fear ifs guise
Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.
together world
We dreamed together of the world remade.
drinking cat eye
Heavily and hypnotically,with her soul flattening itself back like the ears of a hissing cat,Kizzy leaned in and drank of Jack Husk's full,moist mouth,and his red,red lips were hungry against hers,drinking her in return.Their eyes closed.Fingers clutched at collars and hair,at the picnic blanket,at the grass.And as they sank down,pinning their shadows beneath them,the horizon tipped on its side,and slowly,thickly,hour by hour,the day spilled out and ebbed away. It was Kizzy's first kiss, and maybe it was her last, and it was delicious.
color missing sunrise
I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.
has-beens
We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.
desperation instinct possibility
How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?
boredom affliction terrible
Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.
waiting lazy said
Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better.
kissing brain speech
Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.
rose effort waiting
Hazael rose from his knees. It had to take extraordinary effort, yet somehow he managed a version of his lazy smile when he said, "You know, I've always wanted to be a bath attendant. You should take me instead. I'm nicer than my sister." Jael returned the lazy smile. "You're not my type." "Well, you're not anybody's type," said Hazael. "No, wait. I take it back. My sword says she'd like to know you better." "I'm afraid I must deny her the pleasure. I've been kissed by swords before, you see." "I may have noticed.
sleep lovely doe
If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.
decline
Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.