Top 60 Emily Lloyd-Jones Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

3. “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

4. “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

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

13. “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

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. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

22. “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

23. “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

24. “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

25. “We’re all just moments and most of us don’t matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history books.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

26. “For a moment, he considered telling her. Of every night he spent in wakefulness, of how he never quite dreamed of his family, of how his body felt more a battleground than a sanctuary, and of how he did not know who he was – but only that he wanted to be someone.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

27. “She had never been brave – but she’d always been angry. It would have to be enough.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

29. “She was not one to be befuddled by a beautiful boy and a few well-spoken words. Beautiful things were often poisonous or useless – a handful of glossy berries that could kill with a taste, or a carved wooden spoon with no other purpose than to be admired.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

30. “This was the problem with pain, he thought. It refused to be quieted. It devoured, the way flame consumed wood.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

31. “There is a difference between knowing a thing and threatening someone with that knowledge.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

32. “She held on, knowing that sometimes that was all a person could do.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

33. “I like to keep my dreams attainable. Eat cheese, sleep on a nice bed, have my work in the same museum as Rothko – the usual.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

35. “The living had a tendency to make promises they could not keep.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

36. “Warmth kindled in her chest, and she found herself smiling back, charmed by her ability to charm him.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

37. “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

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

39. “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

40. “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

41. “Life is a weirdly themed party.”

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

43. “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

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

46. “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

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

48. “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

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

— Emily Lloyd-Jones

50. “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