Top 280 Jay Kristoff Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Two years I searched for you,” he said. “Two years of empty wastes and endless roads. Of not knowing if I’d ever see you again. By when the ash rose up to choke me, it was thoughts of you that helped me breathe. When the night seemed never-ending, it was dreams of you that helped me sleep. You. And only you.”

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102. “Never flinch” A cold whisper in her ear. “Never fear. And never, ever forget.”

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103. “The kind of handsome a girl might raise an army for, slay a god or a daemon for. This girl, at least.”

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

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

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

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108. “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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109. “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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110. “Memory is a traitor, and a liar, and a good-for-nothing thief.”

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

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112. “Life is pain, and loss, and sacrifice.”

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113. “Easier to hide in the dark than the limelight.”

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114. “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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115. “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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116. “Love has toppled kings, Mia. Ended empires. Even broken out poor, sunsburned sky.”

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117. “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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118. “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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119. “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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120. “You never miss your shadow until you’re lost in the dark.”

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

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

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126. “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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127. “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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128. “My friends are the hill I die on.”

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

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “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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133. “Too many books. Too few centuries.”

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

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135. “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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136. “Then know this. Between and beneath and beyond anything else i may be, i am yours. I will never leave you. never forsake you. You may rely upon sun to rise and moon to fall. For you are the heart of me.”

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

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

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

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

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

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142. “Just because you’re standing in a crowd doesn’t mean you belong there.”

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143. “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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144. “Little kindnesses that spoke of the biggest hearts.”

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145. “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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146. “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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147. “I am a part of you, and you are all of me.”

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

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149. “Thus, the greatest monsters get their way, she realized. By looking just like the rest of us.”

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150. “Hurts, doesn’t it? When you find out the ones who gave you life are just as mortal and frail as the rest of us? That the world isn’t what you thought it was?”

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