Laini Taylor Quotes

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

There's certain people in your life you realise aren't exactly the people that you thought they were.

A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

What is it that angers us?... We have been tricked. In essence, we have been lied to. The problem is not that the photograph has been manipulated, but that we have been manipulated by the photograph.

False fancy brings real misery.

The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters

I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.

The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.