What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?

- Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

- Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

- Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

There was darkness, and monsters vast as worlds swam in it.

- Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

- Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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, Strange the Dreamer

It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

- Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it--a city that had vanished in the mists of time.

- Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

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.

- Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell.

- Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times