"I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story."
- Laini Taylor
"Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything."
"She may have been the one whose name meant music, but his sounded like it. Saying it made her want to sing it, to lean out a window and call him home. To whisper it in the dark."
"If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real."
"ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination."
"He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant."
"Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile."
"She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it."
"I am a link in a chain"
"to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength"