"Liraz snorted, caught off guard, and the tension between them ebbed away. "I'm sorry of my almost dying interrupted your almost kissing."
- Laini Taylor
"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 p..."
"The dead," she said. "And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you'd think they were corpses handing on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements." ... "they're gone, th..."
"Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and th..."
"His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile."
"And... a bed. A bed and a blanket to cover them, a blanket that was theirs together."
"The eye’s perception of texture is pale compared to the lips’, and I didn’t know what velvety was until I knew it with my lips. Oh, kissing. Oh, violin boy."
"Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal."
"This wasn't a person, Zuzana thought, this was greed wearing skin."
"What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?"