#laini taylor

[quotefeeling]

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

Laini Taylor

[thoughtkick]

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

[perfectquote]

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

[perfectfeelings]

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

[thehopefulquotes]

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

Laini Taylor

[madcat-world]

Endpaper: Daughter of Smoke and Bone -  JJcanvas

[bookaddict24-7]

“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.”

―Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

[jacksdreams]

How is Daughter of Smoke and Bone not more popular???? like genuinely HOW. Blue-haired art student living in Prague who runs errands for a wish-granting demon father who trades in TEETH. ancient wars. star-crossed lovers. secret magic. flying monsters. entire scenes that feel like dreams.

The worldbuilding?? Insane. It’s layered and rich and somehow feels both ancient and brand new. And the descriptions?? So vivid you can taste the air in Prague, smell the scorched earth of battlefields, feel the ache of magic in your bones.

It’s whimsical. It’s tragic. It’s haunting in the way old fairy tales are. And the writing?? Some of the most beautiful, lyrical prose I've ever read in YA fantasy. And yet?? No one talks about it.

I need people quoting “once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love” like their lives depended on it. but it’s like everyone collectively forgot one of the most original and magical stories ever written.

I'm sorry but this book deserves a fandom revival IMMEDIATELY.