Laini Taylor
"Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star."
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"Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star."
"السعادة. كانت الموضع الذي تلتقي فيه العاطفة، بكل بهائها وقرع طبولها، بشيء أرق: عودة إلى الديار وأمان وراحة كشعاع الشمس النقي. كانت كل تلك الأشياء، متشابكة مع الدفء والإثارة، وكانت متوهجة في أعماقها كنجم ابتلعته."
Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
"If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine."
"أهلاً بك في أحلامي إن كنت تخشى أحلامك."
Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer
"There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad."
"كان الحاضر وحده، وهو لا متناهٍ. أما الماضي والمستقبل، فما هما إلا غشاوة وضعناها لئلا يُجنّنا اللانهاية."
Laini Taylor
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
"There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?"
"هناك الماضي، وهناك المستقبل. أما الحاضر، فليس إلا تلك اللحظة الواحدة التي تفصل أحدهما عن الآخر. ونحن نعيش متأرجحين على متن تلك اللحظة وهي تندفع مسرعةً إلى الأمام—نحو أي مصير؟"
Laini Taylor
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
"I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar."
"حوّلت كوابيسي إلى يراعات، واصطدتها في جرة."
Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer
"It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming."
"كان مستحيلاً، بالطبع. ولكن متى كان ذلك ليوقف حالماً عن حلمه؟"
Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer
"And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note."
"سكنوا، لكن دماءهم وأعصابهم وفراشاتهم لم تسكن؛ بل كانت حية متدفقة، تضطرم وتترنم في لحن جامح متكامل، تتطابق نغماته تمامًا."
Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
"I'm afraid they're in love, he said, concerned. They don't want to leave you. He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, I know just how they feel."
"أخشى أنهما وقعا في الحب، قال بقلق. لا يريدان أن يغادراكِ. رفع إحدى يديه عن خصرها ليزيح برفق زوجًا عن عنقها، حيث كانت أجنحتهما ترفرف على فكها. بحزن، قال: أعرف تمامًا ما يشعران به."
Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
"“What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”"
"ما حيلة الجندي إذا غدت الرحمة خيانة، وكان وحيدًا في ذلك؟"
Laini Taylor
Days of Blood & Starlight
"Once upon a time there was a silence that dreamed of becoming a song, and then I found you, and now everything is music."
"كان في سالف الأزمان صمتٌ يحلم بأن يصير لحنًا، ثم وجدتك، والآن كل شيء موسيقى."
Laini Taylor
Muse of Nightmares
"Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go."
"ينبغي أن يُنطق بالانتقام بين أسنان مصطكة، والرذاذ يتطاير، وقد تغلغلت أوتار الروح فيه وتلبست به إلى حد لا فكاك منه، حتى لو حاولت. إن أحسست به – إن أحسست به حق الإحساس – فلتنطق به وكأنه قلب ما زال يخفق، قابضًا عليه بقبضتك، والدم يسيل على ساعدك، يقطر من مرفقك، ولا تقدر على إفلاته."
Laini Taylor
Strange the Dreamer
"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."
"الأمل قوة جبارة. ربما لا يكمن فيه سحر حقيقي، لكن عندما تدرك ما ترجوه أكثر من أي شيء، وتحمله كشعلة في أعماقك، يمكنك أن تصنع المستحيل، يكاد يكون سحراً."
Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
"Love is a luxury. No. Love is an element. An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on."
"الحب ترف. لا. الحب عنصر. عنصر. كالهواء نتنفسه، وكالأرض نقف عليها."
Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
"His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile."
"التوت شفتاه في عَبْسةٍ كأنها ابنة عمٍّ لا تعرف الفرح للابتسامة."
Laini Taylor
"Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. It's who you want to be, your most powerful self. Write your books. Finish them, then make them better. Find the way. No one will make this dream come true for you but you."
"كن قوة لا تُقهر. اكتب وكأن ساطورًا وهميًا مشدودًا إلى فخذك. ليس هذا كلامًا مترددًا، أو مهذبًا، أو كشرب الشاي بإصبع الخنصر المرفوع. بل هو من تريد أن تكون، ذاتك الأقوى. اكتب كتبك. أنجزها، ثم اجعلها أفضل. ابحث عن السبيل. لن يحقق لك هذا الحلم أحد سواك."
Laini Taylor
"In a dark layer of Esme's memory there was a kiss. Vividly she recalled Mihai in the snow, naked and fanged. That kiss had conjured ancient passions a god had tried to erase, and Esme remembered the pressure of it and even knew the flavor of that black river. But it belonged to someone else. Tom's kiss, by contrast, wasn't passionate. Esme didn't even have time to close her eyes and tilt her face up to meet it, and it landed crooked and only half on her lips. It was clumsy and it ended quickly. And it was hers."
"في غياهب ذاكرة إزمي المظلمة، كانت هناك قبلة. استعادت بوضوح حي صورة ميهاي في الثلج، عارياً بأنياب بارزة. كانت تلك القبلة قد أيقظت شغفاً قديماً حاول إله طمسه، وتذكرت إزمي ضغطها، بل وعرفت نكهة ذلك النهر الأسود. لكنها كانت تخص آخر. أما قبلة توم، على النقيض، فلم تكن شغوفة. لم يتسن لإزمي حتى أن تغمض عينيها وتميل وجهها لتلقاها، فهبطت منحرفة ولم تلامس شفتيها إلا نصفها. كانت خرقاء وانتهت بسرعة. وكانت ملكاً لها."
Laini Taylor
"I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write."
"أكتب لأن الحياة، على روعتها — وهي رائعة حقًا — ليست كافية. إنها لا تحتوي، على سبيل المثال، على تنانين. أجد هذا غير مُرضٍ. لذا أقرأ. وأكتب."
Laini Taylor
"It was hope, dying unsurprised."
Laini Taylor
"Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked."
Laini Taylor
"Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy, filling it with art, books, ornate lanterns, and a Persian carpet as soft as lynx fur. And of course there were her angel wings taking up one whole wall. But there was no help for the real emptiness; its close air was stirred by no breath but her own. When she was alone, the empty place within her, the missingness, as she thought of it, seemed to swell. Even being with Kaz had done something to keep it at bay, though not enough. Never enough."
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