Top 280 Jay Kristoff Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “But in battle, everyone bleeds the same.”

— Jay Kristoff

52. “We are hope for the hopeless. The fire in the night. We will walk the dark as they do, and they shall know our names and despair. For so long as they burn, we shall be flame. So long as they bleed, we shall be blades. So long as they sin, we shall be saints.”

— Jay Kristoff

53. “Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.”

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54. “You will do it for those you love. Those who need someone to stand up for them. Those who are alone.”

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55. “You don’t change. You don’t grow. You take away the chaos and you just stay the same. Forever.”

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56. “In battle, the wise man pays to god. Yet he still raises his sword.”

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57. “Never let your face tell a secret your lips should not.”

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58. “That’s the awful part about it: the worst days of your life start out just like any other.”

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59. “While we fight, there is hope. Nothing is ending yet.”

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60. “The wolf does not pity the lamb. The storm begs no forgiveness of the drowned.”

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61. “Beauty you’re born with, but brains you earn.”

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62. “I’ll just dance until the music stops, and see where the steps take me.”

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63. “A traitor’s just a patriot on the wrong side of winning.”

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64. “Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than any constellation in the sky?”

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65. “So given that I’m busier than a whorehouse running a two-for-one special, do me the honour of saying thank you, and taking what you’re bloody given.”

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66. “The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.” – Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff.”

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67. “You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who’ll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.”

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68. “You mean everything to me. Everything I’ve done. All of it. You’re the reason. The first and only reason.”

— Jay Kristoff

69. “For a moment, she wasn’t Mia Corvere, daughter of a murdered house, parched with the thirst for revenge. Not a fledgling assassin or a servant of a goddess. Just a girl. And he a boy. Their eyes blind to all but each other. Aalea’s voice echoing in her ears.”

— Jay Kristoff

70. “But there is beauty in knowing all things end, Mia. The brightest flames burn out the fastest. But in them, there is warmth that can last a lifetime.”

— Jay Kristoff

71. “He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms.”

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72. “We are killers, you and I’, he said. ‘Killers one, killers all. And each death we bring is a prayer. An offering to Our Lady of Blessed Murder. Death as a mercy. Death as a warning. Death as an end unto itself. All of these, ours to know and gift unto the world. The wolf does not pity the lamb. The storm begs no forgiveness of the drowned.”

— Jay Kristoff

73. “A man must accept his fate, little Crow. Or be consumed by it.”

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74. “To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die.”

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75. “My name is Mia Corvere. Blade of the Red Church. Champion of the Venatus Magni. Chosen of the Dark Mother and Queen of Scoundrels. Never call me girl again.”

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76. “Nevernight. Stupid name for a book.”

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77. “Am I not merciful?”

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78. “In every breath, hope abides.”

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79. “Your scars tell who you are. Your skin is the page, and your scars are the ink, telling the story of your life.”

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80. “If her face were a puzzle, most would put it back in the box, unfinished.”

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81. “I denied death for you. And I’d die for you again. Kill for you. I’d tear the stars down from the heavens to fashion you a crown. You are my heart. My Queen. I’d do anything and everything you ask me, Mia.”

— Jay Kristoff

82. “The place had a feeling unlike any other she’d visited. There were no altars nor golden trim, but for the first time in her life, she felt as if she were somewhere sanctified.”

— Jay Kristoff

83. “To never fear was to never hope. Never love. Never live. To never fear the dark was to never smile as the dawn kissed your face.”

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84. “I am a daughter of the dark between the stars. I am the thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. i am the vengeance of every orphaned daughter, every murdered mother, every bastard son. I am the war you cannot win.”

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85. “The last thing you will ever be in this world, girl, is someone’s hero. But you will be a girl heroes fear.”

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86. “I cannot help but feel a grudging respect also. He thinks swiftly, this Tyler Jones. He does not rattle, and he does not hesitate. With everything on the line, he still sees clearly, and he does what it takes to win. He is a born leader.”

— Jay Kristoff

87. “Now, children, watch closely. Hold your breath. Listen. And I will show you the components of calamity.”

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88. “They say it gets easier with time, you know? They’re liars.”

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89. “If you can’t hurt the ones who hurt you, sometimes hurting anyone will do.”

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90. “It’s not the bullets that kill you. It’s moments like these. One piece at a time.”

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91. “When all is bood, blood is all.”

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92. “Promises are only words.”

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93. “Your past doesn’t make calls on your future. It doesn’t matter who you were. Only who you are.”

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94. “You’ll be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be, girl, is someone’s hero.”

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95. “Hear me Niah, hear me Mother. This flesh your feast. This blood your wine. This life, this end, my gift to you. Hold him close.”

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96. “Patience, she’d tell herself, whispering the word like a prayer. If Vengeance has a mother, her name is Patience.”

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97. “Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns... It is a weapon... and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.”

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98. “No matter how dark life became, shutting out the hurt was as easy as opening a cover.”

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99. “You can be anything you want. Fate deals us our hand, but we decide how to play it. We all of us choose the people we want to be.”

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100. “History, gentlefriends, is not without a sense of irony.”

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