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.
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LAINI TAYLOR She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She ... LAINI TAYLOR Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. ... LAINI TAYLOR It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful. LAINI TAYLOR How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse? LAINI TAYLOR As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Lira... LAINI TAYLOR Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. LAINI TAYLOR All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like veg... LAINI TAYLOR The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentiet... LAINI TAYLOR The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, ... LAINI TAYLOR Lo que más deseo es estar a tu lado y ayudarte. Y, si nos hace falta una eternidad, mucho mejor, po... LAINI TAYLOR Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la u... LAINI TAYLOR El Amor es un Elemento. --- Akiva LAINI TAYLOR War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can inve... LAINI TAYLOR I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party... ROD TAYLOR I think every fight is a tough fight, but I'm not settling for a bronze medal. KATIE TAYLOR Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h... TAYLOR SWIFT Never judge a stranger by his clothes. ZACHARY TAYLOR When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo... TAYLOR SWIFT In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care ... ZACHARY TAYLOR I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D... ZACHARY TAYLOR In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain... ZACHARY TAYLOR As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and po... ZACHARY TAYLOR Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon... ZACHARY TAYLOR I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the polit... ZACHARY TAYLOR The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu... ZACHARY TAYLOR The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It ha... ZACHARY TAYLOR I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last president... ZACHARY TAYLOR My wife was as much of a soldier as I was. ZACHARY TAYLOR It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. ZACHARY TAYLOR In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes. ZACHARY TAYLOR The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is po... ZACHARY TAYLOR I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, whic... ZACHARY TAYLOR Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man ... ZACHARY TAYLOR As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so wi... ZACHARY TAYLOR I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ... TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,... TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime. TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents. TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what... TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials... TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai... TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an... TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years... TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki... TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I... TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec... TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int... TAYLOR WILSON