Laini Taylor Quotes

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I think we do good things and bad things, sometimes simultaneously - or they may be the same thing.

There's a dark side to everything.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

I like characters who are contradictory.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.