Laini Taylor Quotes

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

I was watching the news that day when the bulletin came on that my father had been shot. I prayed. I asked God, 'Please don't let my daddy die.'

Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

Brock Lesnar is not here to put smiles on people's faces. Brock Lesnar is here to shock the WWE Universe and put TEARS in the EYES of CHILDREN!

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Blood and death. That moves me.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.

I got hit twice in the face, and that was not fun.

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

It hurts, it hurts... Im dying, I'm dying.

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.