Shannon

“What good were bright gods who only watched from afar while dark gods strove every moment to devour you?”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters

“She craved a presence beside her, solid. Fingertips light at the nape of her neck and a voice meeting hers in the dark. Someone who would wait with an umbrella to walk her home in the rain, and smile like sunshine when he saw her coming. Who would dance with her on her balcony, keep his promises and know her secrets, and make a tiny world wherever he was, with just her and his arms and his whisper and her trust.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“of night crowded into the slanting places beyond the reach of the dawn.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone