Top 280 Jay Kristoff Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “She was silence. She was dead leaves fallen. She was a blood-red stain, spilling slow across the dance floor and making my heart fall still. The drip of hot wax upon your naked skin. The first flicker of a lover’s tongue into your opening, wanting mouth.”

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202. “A life without books is a life not lived.”

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203. “I didn’t ask because it doesn’t matter. Whatever you did, you did it because it needed to be done. Remorse is for the weak, Mia. And regret is for cowards. Whatever you did then meant you can be here in my arms now. That makes it right. And I’m not about to let some bollocks about moons and suns take that away from us.”

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204. “Ask me not if God exists, but why he’s such a prick.”

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205. “There is a time for grief, and a time for song, and a time to recall with fondness all that has been gone. But there is a time for killing too. There is a time for blood. And a time for rage. And a time to close your eyes and become the thing hell wants you to be. And so. I did.”

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206. “And though you left me shattered, that does not make me broken. The pieces of me you left behind are sharp as knives. Sharp as truth. So hear it now, and know.”

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207. “Love is the beginning and the end of everything I do. It’s my reason. It’s the answer to every question. It gives me strength.”

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208. “It matters not what you hold faith in. But you must hold faith in something.”

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209. “To die in the fire of war is easy. To live in the light of peace, much harder.”

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210. “That girl had a thousand smiles. A smile cruel as winter wind, that cut you down to shivering bone. A smile light as dove’s down, just the softest hint of it across her cheek to let you know she was listening as you spoke. A smile that could make you fear, and a smile that could make you cry, and a smile that made you feel like you were the only man alive.”

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211. “If we spend all our lives in darkness, is it any wonder when darkness starts to live in us?”

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212. “Astrid was just as fierce a scholar as I was a swordsman. A girl who wielded books like blades.”

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213. “I’d tear the wings off an angel to fly this cage. I’d claw down the sky to carve my name into this earth.”

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214. “It’s a strange truth, but some folk enjoy the notion of owning books more than reading them, and I soon tired of him glowering at my back.”

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215. “You treacherous swamp donkey, how dare you?”

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216. “There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.”

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217. “I felt a wave of nostalgia, that sweet poison seeping into my heart, that vain and selfish desire to dwell among glories of the past, when days were better and simpler, when all the world seemed bright, tinted rose-red in the halls of memory. But it’s a fool who looks with more fondness to the days behind than the ones ahead. And it’s a man drenched in defeat who sings that sad refrain; that things were better then.”

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218. “Hearts only bruise,” the vampire murmured. “They never break.”

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219. “I was being swept up in a river, yet even then, I was old enough to know; there’s a difference between those who swim with the flood and those who drown fighting it. And its name is Wisdom.”

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220. “When feasting on the flesh of your enemies, gentlefriends, always take the time to cook it first.”

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221. “The graveyards of the world are full of fools who thought of fear as anything but a friend.”

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222. “Because the best way to learn to win is by losing.”

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223. “Respect is earned, not owed.”

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224. “A girl who wielded books like blades.”

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225. “There are three ways men view the women of the world, Gabriel. Enemies to be overcome. Prizes to be won. Or as people. My advice is choose the latter, my love. Lest they begin considering you the former.”

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226. “My father used to say the art of telling a good story lies in knowing when to stop. Keep talking long enough, you’ll find there’s no such thing as a happy ending.”

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

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228. “When in a storm, the wise woman prays to God. But she also rows for shore.”

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229. “When your dark mother and pale mistress set you this task... Did you think she was locking me in here with you, or you in here with me?”

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230. “How easily a parent can make a triumph of their children, gentlefriends. And how easily they can make a ruin.”

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231. “When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.”

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232. “But in truth, we weep not for those departed, but for we who remain. And it’s ever best to take the time to say goodbye. All too often, fate robs us of the chance.”

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233. “When the pilot’s chair is empty.”

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234. “And I knew the colour of want then. And its colour was red.”

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235. “The dream I live is because of you. The life I have is because of you. I’ll never forget.”

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236. “I never thought I’d find such peace in simple reading. The words were a kind of magic, taking me by the hand and sweeping me into lands unseen, times unremembered, thoughts unimagined.”

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237. “But when you’re looking down the barrel at your own funeral, even doing something stupid sounds better than doing nothing at all.”

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238. “A sky as gray as the moment you realize you’re no longer in love.”

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239. “This is what family is, I realize. To never be alone.”

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240. “There’s strength to be found in hatred. There’s a courage forged only in rage.”

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241. “How many hearts have been made complete by words so small as I do? How many more have been shattered with a breath as tiny as It’s over? Little sounds that reshape or unmake your entire world, like great spells of old to redraw the very lines by which you see yourself and all else about you. Two little words.”

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242. “Aurora Legion squads will be known for their honor. Their willingness to hold the line. They will be champions of peace, of justice. And for generations, people in need will sigh in relief when they see our ships arrive.”

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243. “When you’ve lost everything,” she whispered, “you’re free to do anything.”

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244. “It’s hard to drown your sorrows when the little bastards can swim.”

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245. “If death is so glorious, how is it meted so cheaply and so often by the most worthless of men?”

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246. “They say the best revenge is living well, but there’s still a lot to be said for dancing beneath the blood moons in a cloak made of your enemy’s skin.”

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247. “Truth is, the questions you hear in the quiet are always the most terrifying, because most people never take the time to listen to the answers.”

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248. “And to the swell of that horrid tune, legs kicking, face purpling, her father had begun dancing.”

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249. “There’s enough thermex inside Kaiser to level a house. So unless you’d like your nice, glowy walls decorated in a lovely new color called blood and brains, I suggest you let me up. Now.”

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250. “Because to be alive was ever in some way to be afraid.”

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