What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you se... by Laini Taylor

What are we fighting for? What are we killing for? What do you see when you look into the future?

Laini Taylor

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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

cities night book

... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

chocolate taken healing

When it turned out that he could, Karou dropped to her knees to genuflect. "Gods of math and physics," she intoned, "I accept your gift of this clever fair-haired boy

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I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever. by Laini Taylor

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

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Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

desert kissing brain

What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down.

smart fun book

And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than w... by Laini Taylor

And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.

turns faces way

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get... by Laini Taylor

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

things-will-get-better alive long

If he does he's a fool," said Hazael. "The message is clear. Please enjoy this lovely fruit while contemplating all the ways we might kill you in your sleep.

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Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more... by Laini Taylor

Thank you, but we respectfully decline your overture, being more enjoyably occupied at present.

decline

Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

mind love-you thinking

I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

ex-boyfriend tone want

A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou... by Laini Taylor

A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.

pauses smell

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doe... by Laini Taylor

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

magic hurt needs

There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.

taken long hands

There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fe... by Laini Taylor

There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.

someone-you-love hell way

I shudder to think. I might wear lace collars and laugh flower petals and pearls. People might try to pat me. I see them think it. My height triggers the puppy-kitten reflex- Must touch-and I've found that since you can't electrify yourself like a fence, the next best thing is to have murderer's eyes.

flower eye thinking

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

hints shadow mind

His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

stars light eye

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

italian epic talking