"When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever."

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Laini Taylor

#Writing Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?”
“I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.”
“You can be in the public eye all the time and still have a private life, but the important thing is to keep in touch with the people who put you there.”
“Reality has become so intolerable, she said, so bleak, that all I can paint now are the colors of my dreams.”
“Love is hope without doubt, hate is fear turned out.”
“...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneselfâ€”be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himselfâ€”by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to loveâ€”the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.”
“But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.”
“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”

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