Night of Cake & Puppets (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1.5)

by Laini Taylor

I want to do mysterious and improbable things alongside a fierce and beautiful girl who looks like a doll brought to life by a sorcerer.

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. —Roald Dahl

I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it’s honey.

Bottom line: There is enough spare vengeance in me to act on behalf of mistreated,

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

It’s my personal theory that only 27 percent of perceived confidence is actual confidence, and the rest is sham. The key is: If you can’t tell the difference, there is no difference.

Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

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

Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own.

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