"Why not open the door, and open their arms, and close them again around each other? Did the not understand how, in the strange chemistry of human emotion, his suffering and her, mingled together, coul..."
- Laini Taylor
"Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony."
"And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always."
"In moments Akiva was up in the ether, scarcely feeling the sting of ice crystals in the thin air. He let his glamour fall away, and his wings were like sheets of fire sweeping the black of the heavens..."
"War does that, nothing for it. Reality lays siege. Your framed portrait of life is smashed, and a new one thrust upon you. It's ugly, and you don't even want to look at it let alone hang it on the wal..."
"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 pi..."
"It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming."
"If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine."
"I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar."
"Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?"