Laini Taylor Magic Quotations

She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.

Because hope comes from in you, and wishes are just magic.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

Magic won't save us. The power it would take to conjure on such a scale, the tithe would destroy us. The only hope...is hope. You don't need tokens for it- it's in your heart or nowhere. And in your heart, child, it had been stronger than I have ever seen.

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

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

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.)