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  • #1
    Laini Taylor
    “You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful and full of monsters."

    “Beautiful and full of monsters?"

    “All the best stories are.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #2
    Laini Taylor
    “It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #3
    Laini Taylor
    “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

  • #4
    Laini Taylor
    “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

  • #5
    Laini Taylor
    “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

  • #6
    Laini Taylor
    “Without his books, his room felt like a body with its hearts cut out.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #7
    Laini Taylor
    “The library knows its own mind,” old Master Hyrrokkin told him, leading him back up the secret stairs. “When it steals a boy, we let it keep him.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #8
    Laini Taylor
    “Sometimes a moment is so remarkable that it carves out a space in time and spins there, while the world rushes on around it. This was one such.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #9
    Laini Taylor
    “He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps loved him back. But even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #10
    Laini Taylor
    “As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #11
    Laini Taylor
    “On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.”
    Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

  • #12
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
    "Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
    "Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
    "Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
    "You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not natural for women to fight."
    "It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
    Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
    “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
    "You're a thief, Kaz."
    "Isn't that what I just said?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #25
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #26
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No Mourners.
    No Funerals.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #27
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #28
    Leigh Bardugo
    I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #29
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

  • #30
    Leigh Bardugo
    “What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm



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