Luke Taylor > Quotes

“Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling.”
― Luke Taylor

“A story is only as good as its villain.”
― Luke Taylor

“Don't write what you know. Write who you are. Write your heart and soul. Write what you dream of when you look to the stars.”
― Luke Taylor

“Your face says much, thief. Trust me, I'm the one who's looking at it.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“Fiction is a careful combination of observation, inspiration, and imagination.”
― Luke Taylor

“Don't forget where you came from, but always remember where you're going.”
― Luke Taylor

“It was about time their nose for trouble had a woman's touch.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“It is far easier to take a blow to the cheek than a blow to one’s pride. Broken bones can heal, but a broken mirror must be replaced.”
― Luke Taylor, Ozmander

“You stole my heart before I could give it to you.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.”
― Luke Taylor, The Knight Ascendant

“Life is about connection, not perfection.”
― Luke Taylor

“They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.”
― Luke Taylor

“His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.”
― Luke Taylor, Shatterpoint Alpha

“I've seen a lot in my years, Aerlyn. And when I look at you, I see a rose, not a thistle."
Her heart caught in her throat and she nearly snorted.
"You see what you want to see."
Quill chuckled to himself. At the thorns in her voice.
"As do you, Thistle. Can you tell me what I can see any more than I can tell you want you see?"
"No."
"Then let me see what I want to see." He said, turning to face her, and she jabbed her midnight gaze at him before twisting her head to see the many sorrows sleeping beneath his own lake blue eyes. "Because I see what no one else sees.”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“What was there in a man's life, but what he saw and what he could not?”
― Luke Taylor, Vault of Dreams

“He'd failed them, the swimming goldfish of his life's tiny existence whom he held so dear in his heart; he'd turned his muses into mistakes and no one knew the difference but him.”
― Luke Taylor, The Quiet Kill

“A writer should be judged on how red they make their reader's eyes.”
― Luke Taylor

“Great relationships create great characters. Make them feel real. Alive. Tangible and unforgettable. Bad relationships kill them. Bury them. Make you wish they hadn't wasted your precious time.”
― Luke Taylor

“He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't.

He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.

So he wasn't going to now.”
― Luke Taylor, Shatterpoint Alpha

“It was not fear thinking these thoughts. More like realism. A very grim sense of it. A knowing that far too soon not all would be as it was now.”
― Luke Taylor, Shalmanser

“Life’s just an adventure. Can’t live it standing still.”
― Luke Taylor, Ozmander

“I just want you to know, I love the way you look at me. Make's me feel like everything's gonna be okay.”
― Luke Taylor, The Quiet Kill

“Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.”
― Luke Taylor, The Quiet Kill

“I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.”
― Luke Taylor

“The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.”
― Luke Taylor, Shatterpoint Alpha

“I know my place. I always did. I just never knew how to get there.”
― Luke Taylor, Ozmander

“The man looked up and Tanya was staring at him through watery eyes.
“Now you know. I don’t see how it changes anything.”
“It doesn’t. You’re still a diamond in a field of mud.”
Tanya smirked.
“And what about you?”
“I don’t know what I am.”
“What do you want to be?”
“It’s not that easy.”
― Luke Taylor, Evening Wolves

“Loomis waved a hand and a squiggly trail of smoke followed like a magic wand. Loomis had a captivating subtlety and charm and was capable of more tricks than a sage in Pharaoh's court.”
― Luke Taylor, Evening Wolves

“So what could she do? If he was gone, he was gone; and where he had gone he had not wanted her to follow.”
― Luke Taylor, Evening Wolves

“To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide.”
― Luke Taylor