“Creatures with no dreams of their own can do naught but destroy the dreams of others.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Blackbringer
“I miss sunrise even more. The green scent of dawn in the forest? The color blushing back into the world, different every day.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Blackbringer
“It was a bold, wild life for a faerie - most never even left their forests - but she was a bold, wild lass, and so were her daughter and granddaughter after her, and their place in the world was everywhere and nowhere, like gypsies on wing. No home had they but their caravans and campfires, and no family but the one they'd cobbled together of crows, creatures and kindred souls they'd met on their endless journey round and round the world.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Blackbringer
“That faeries have forgotten the Tapestry; that is the greatest tragedy of all. It's the fabric of all creation and it's woven of dreams, the dreams of the Djinn. Dreams are real, Magpie. They're seed and water and sun. They're everything.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Blackbringer
“All the bogeymen together, sitting down to tea.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Blackbringer
“Humans had a genius for devising instruments of death. Their lives were so short and they seemed to value them so little, sending waves of men to clash in battlefields, then weighing victory by the piled corpses. And if they held their own lives so worthless, the lives of everything else were as fruit to pluck from trees.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Blackbringer
“It was Hiss who won by stamping on another’s foot, and he spent the meal staring at Poppy and missing his mouth with his spoon.”
― Laini Taylor, quote from Blackbringer
“We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.”
― Adam Silvera, quote from History Is All You Left Me
“La poveretta pensava poi anche ch’egli poteva bene impedire che si facesse monaca; ma lì finiva la sua autorità sopra di lei, e la sua protezione. Partito che fosse, essa rimarrebbe sola col principe. E qualunque cosa avesse poi a patire in quella casa il buon prete non n’avrebbe saputo nulla, o sapendolo, con tutta la sua buona intenzione, non avrebbe potuto far altro che aver compassione di lei, quella compassione tranquilla e misurata che, in generale, s’accorda, come per cortesia,a chi abbia dato cagione o pretesto al male che gli fanno.”
― Alessandro Manzoni, quote from The Betrothed
“Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.”
― Louisa May Alcott, quote from Jo's Boys
“My little girl, oh, the daughter I never had. Now tell me, angel, are you fucking anybody new?”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Flesh and Blood
“N’est-il pas dans la noble destinée de la femme d’être plus touchée des pompes de la misère que des splendeurs de la fortune ?”
― Honoré de Balzac, quote from Eugénie Grandet
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