#karou

She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#education

Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #love #romance #love

Don't I deserve to finally be free of you? ↗

— Laini Taylor

#freedom #karou #freedom

My tiny scary friend is coming ↗

— Laini Taylor

#funny #karou #funny

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #inspirational

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #life

War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #love

oh, good, Pestilence is free," said Karou, heading towards the sculpture. Massive emperor and horse both wore gas masks, like every other statue in the place, and it had always put Karou in mind of the first horseman of the Apocalypse, Pestilence, sowing plaque with one outstretched arm. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #pestilence #apocalypse

In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#beautiful-description #despair #emotions #karou #beauty

It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #laini-taylor #loneliness #love #pain