Top 60 Emily Lloyd-Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing comes for free. We just don’t know what it’ll cost.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

2. “Actions fueled by desperation. They were the worst kinds of decisions, because desperate people could see the error of their ways and simply not care. They would rush headlong into a bad situation because they could see no other options.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

3. “She could not slay her own fears. But as for the men who’d made her afraid – they could bleed.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

4. “Because names have power. Always have.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

5. “Home was taste and smell and sensation. It was not a place.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

6. “She reminded him of an ocean – beautiful, with enough salt to kill a man. He suspected it would take a knight or a hero of legend to impress one such as her.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

7. “I feel like that sometimes... I feel like I’m this collection of broken pieces I don’t know what to do with.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

8. “Death should be peaceful – the dead have earned that much.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

9. “Mer had always considered herself a decent judge of liars. But she had forgotten it was possible to lie without ever uttering an untruth.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

10. “But were they truly victims? If they made a deal, knowing fully what they were trading for a wish – but then again, could a person ever truly know the consequences of giving away their heart?”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

11. “But she did not say that, because some things could not be said. Not when a person looked cracked open with pain and hope, when a single word might shatter them.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

12. “Ellis smiled, just a little. It wasn’t as if Aderyn was not attractive – she was, of course. She reminded him of an ocean – beautiful, with enough salt to kill a man. He suspected it would take a knight or a hero of legend to impress one such as her.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

13. “The anticipation of the loss hurts nearly as much as the loss itself. You find yourself trying to hold on to every detail, because you’ll never have them again.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

14. “Ryn thought that if she could love the monsters – then she could love those monstrous parts of herself.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

15. “When I met you,” he said, “you and Renfrew – only one of you bent down to greet my dog.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

16. “She had walked willingly into a fairy tale, into a world where she could trade her heart for her freedom. She may as well have donned a red cloak and strode into a darkened forest. She had always known there would be wolves.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

17. “Life is a weirdly themed party.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

18. “The morning after he fought the Blaidd, Fane woke to aching ribs and a corgi across his chest.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

19. “That is why I take the younger ones, you see. You already give parts of your hearts away so easily – little fragments attached to celebrities, to hobbies, to ill-fated love affairs. Your kind have the best chance at survival.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

20. “Yes,” she answered. “I grew up thinking monsters could be slain.” “Ah,” he said. “And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

21. “To love someone was to face the possibility of losing them, and she feared another loss could shatter her.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

22. “She became her own knight; she collected those broken promises and whispered apologies and fashioned them into armor.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

23. “There were some things that couldn’t be laid to rest by time nor distance.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

24. “Death and pain were close companions, often twined around each other.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

25. “Fairy tales with all the shine taken away from them were simply stories of desperation. Of hungry wolves devouring children and jealous stepsisters who hacked off their own toes to fit inside a glass slipper.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

26. “And perhaps this was the truth about the dead. You went on. They’d want you to.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

27. “Part of him wondered if he liked maps because they were a reassurance. A promise that he would never again be without a path.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

28. “When faced with darkness and terror, most people will run – and forget those around them.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

29. “She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

30. “I prefer to be awake and in pain rather than unconscious and unfeeling.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

31. “There were some pains so old they were almost a comfort.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

32. “She was a half-wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

33. “Perhaps one could become used to loss. Or perhaps the grief went so deep that he could not see it.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

34. “And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

35. “It was a risk, to love someone. To do so with the full knowledge that they’d leave someday. Then let go of them, when they did.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

36. “The maps were old friends, speaking to him in lines and etchings as clearly as people spoke with words.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

37. “Monsters were unrestrained, unbound, and beautiful in their destruction. They could be slain but they would never be truly defeated.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

38. “This – this was what came after. Living.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

39. “It was always the small words that did a person in.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

40. “By the time she was ten, Dee had put away her fairy-tale books and decided she only believed in real things. Then the demons declared themselves not two months later.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

41. “The forest did not scare her; rather, she wanted to be like it: ageless and impervious, cruel and beautiful. Death could not touch.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

42. “Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up the hollow space in her chest where a heart should have resided.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

43. “She was a girl held together by knitted yarn and magic.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

44. “Maps held no secrets, no intricacies he could not parse. He could know a place far better than he could know a person.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

45. “But in his heart of hearts, Fane did not choose the city. He did not choose a kingdom. He chose her.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

46. “Death is not to be feared,” he said. “But nor can it be forsaken. One must be mindful.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

47. “If I come across a problem, I take my axe to it. Or bury it. I’m good at burying things.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

48. “There was something about siblings – a language that was half memory and half glance. Jests and jibes. They were a tangle of love and resentment, and despite their differences, Ryn knew he would defend her to the death.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

49. “Someone’s at the gate,” Kit says as he pours another swirl of batter onto the hot skillet. “Ciere, if it’s your mob friends, please invite them in for coffee. Just because they’re blackmailing you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be polite.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

50. “I’m a disaster. You know I am. I’m prickly. I prefer dead people to living ones. I’m only good at digging graves and surviving in a forest.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones