Top 280 Jay Kristoff Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Easier to hide in the dark than the limelight.”

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102. “We have a saying in Vaan,” Byern replied. “In every breath, hope abides.”

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103. “Death is the only promise we all keep. The life we live... there is room in it for love, Mia. But a love like autumn leaves. Beautiful one turn. A bonfire the next. Only ashes the remainder.”

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104. “I don’t know my limit, but I’m scared to reach it. I don’t know what will happen if I do. And I still can’t sleep.”

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105. “But here is truth, gentlefriends, no matter the number of suns in your sky. At the heart of it, two kinds of people live in this world or any other: those who flee and those who fight.”

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106. “In between the pages, I’m an emperor. An adventurer. A warrior and a wanderer. In between the pages I’m not myself-and more myself than in any other place on earth.”

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107. “Memory is a traitor, and a liar, and a good-for-nothing thief.”

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108. “Just so you know, if it comes down to cannibalism, you get eaten first.”

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

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110. “What you look like doesn’t change who you are inside. They can give you a new face, but they can’t give you a new heart. No matter what they take from you, they can’t that away unless you let them.”

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111. “There is a place, and a time, for all endings to begin.”

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112. “The little logika growled and shook his head. “You know, democracy sounds like a great idea until you spend three minutes with the average voter.”

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113. “Before I found you, I was just a shape waiting in the shadows.”

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114. “Love has toppled kings, Mia. Ended empires. Even broken out poor, sunsburned sky.”

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115. “We walk the shadow road. If we do it right no one should ever know our real names. We should be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the rich in their sleep.”

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116. “Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.”

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117. “If I were going to name my blade,” Mia said thoughtfully, “I’d call it ‘Fluffy.”

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118. “They will never see the knife in your hand if they are lost in your eyes. They will never taste the poison in their wine when they are drunk on the sight of you.” A small shrug. “Beauty simply makes it easier, love. Easier than you have it now. It may be sad. It may be wrong. But it is also true.”

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119. “Truth is, there’s no difference between your nethers and mine. Aside from the obvious, of course. But one doesn’t carry any more weight than the other. Why should what’s between my legs be considered any smarter or stupider, any worse or better?”

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120. “It’s truth to say in all save solitude – and in some sad cases, even then – you can always count on the company of fools.”

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121. “You never miss your shadow until you’re lost in the dark.”

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122. “Mia looked over the new bruises on Tric’s face, shook her head. ‘My brave centurion. Riding in on his charger to save his poor damsel? Hold me, brave sir, I fear I shall swoon.”

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123. “Fear has it’s uses. Fear is what keeps the dark from devouring you. Fear is what stops you joining a game you cannot hope to win.”

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124. “Red waves crashed over her head, the whole world spinning, turning, churning. No breath in her lungs. Blood in her mouth.”

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125. “And in sight of God and his Seven Martyrs, I do here vow: let the dark know my name and despair. So long as it burns, I am the flame. So long as it bleeds, I am the blade. So long as it sins, I am the saint.”

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126. “Go, brother! If I’m not back aboard in half an hour, tell your wife I love her!”

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127. “The choice between looking plain and pretty isn’t really a choice at all. But any fool knows looking dangerous is preferable to both.”

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128. “The Light is full of lies, Acolyte. The Suns serve only to blind us.”

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129. “It’s simple to love someone on the days that are easy. But you find out what your love is made of on the days that are hard.”

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130. “The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.”

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131. “Your father gave me life. But you were the one who made me live.”

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132. “Too many books. Too few centuries.”

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133. “It’s the smallest spiders that have the darkest poison, lads.”

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134. “Mia had seen some fighters who moved like dancers, lithe and graceful. Others moved like bulls, and brawn and bluster. But Cassius moved like a knife. Simple. Straight. Deadly. There was no flash to his style. No flair. He simply cut right to the bone.”

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135. “Names speak to the namer as much as the named.”

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136. “Iron or glass? they’d asked. She was neither. She was steel.”

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137. “I used to wonder sometimes why they made us,” he says. “If there could ever be a reason for something like me to exist. But now I know.” He runs his fingers down my cheek, over my lips. “I was made for you. All I am. All I do, I do for you.”

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138. “Sometimes weakness is a weapon. If you’re smart enough to use it.”

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139. “I am a part of you, and you are all of me.”

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140. “Like a life. Like a universe. It begins as all things do. Very small.”

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141. “And last, the language of cats. O, yes, cats speak gentlefriend, doubt it not – if you own more than one and can’t see them at this particular moment, chances are they’re off in a corner somewhere lamenting the fact that their owner seems to spend all their time reading silly books rather than paying them the attention they so richly deserve.”

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142. “Little kindnesses that spoke of the biggest hearts.”

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143. “Dark now. Blacker than black, I know it. And words are tiny things in the face of all that dark and all that cold. But hear these words, little sister. Hear and know. Tomorrow is coming, just as fast as the turning of the sky. And as sure as it’s black now, the sun will rise. Always. No matter how faint the glow.”

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144. “Enjoy yourselves, my dears. Laugh. Love. Remember what it is to live, and forget, if only for a moment, what it is to serve.”

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145. “Better to rule in hell,” the beautiful man smiles, “than serve in heaven.”

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146. “Fear is never a choice. Never a choice. But letting it rule you is.”

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147. “She is stubborn, and moves, even when it seems she cannot. But sometimes, as she crawls along, she cries slow, fat tears. And other times, she looks at her palm pad. And other times, she closes her eyes and meditates, or wishes, or simply grieves. But always, always, she crawls.”

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148. “Never flinch,” she breathed. “Never fear.”

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149. “Promises are for poets.”

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150. “How many Mia’s had she helped create?”

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