Top 280 Jay Kristoff Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I denied death for you.”

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202. “He’d do anything to have me at this moment. Anything I asked. Kill for me. Die for me. Bathe in the blood of hundreds just so he could breathe his last in me. This is the strength that topples kings. Ends empires. Even breaks the sky. This is power.”

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

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204. “In justice and hope, no hope there be, In mercy and bliss, no bliss for thee, In death and truth, no truth I see, Through blood and fire, now dance with me.”

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

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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.”

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

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212. “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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213. “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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214. “The dream I live is because of you. The life I have is because of you. I’ll never forget.”

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

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

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

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

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222. “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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223. “Respect is earned, not owed.”

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

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226. “In death and truth I see, through blood and fire, now dance with me.”

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227. “Soy la guerra que no puedes ganar.”

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228. “Love is a single sun in a heaven full of stars.”

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

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232. “You say nothing’s kept by those who won’t fight for it? I plunged my hands into the dark between the stars for you. Mia. I turned my back on light and warmth and clawed my way through the abyss for you. I didn’t do that so I could step aside graciously and watch the girl who killed me lay claim to the girl I love.”

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

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

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

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

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

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241. “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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242. “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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243. “I will not give my heart to a coward. I will give it to a lion.”

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244. “Life is not a story you can tell. It’s only a story you can live. The bright news is, you get to choose what kind yours will be. A story of horror, or a story of courage. A story of indulgence, or a story of duty. The story of a monster. Or the story of a man. What will your story be?”

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245. “All the people I care about leave, or they get taken away. And like an idiot, I keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to be different. I don’t know why I do that. I don’t know why I don’t just learn my lesson.”

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246. “We are not made more by the stories we read, but by the stories we share.”

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247. “Bad men never realize when the monster is them.”

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248. “Ash wasn’t the kind to declare affections just to hear them parroted back. No insecurity. No bait. The girl knew how she felt, she trusted Mia enough to share it, and that was all there was to it. Mia liked that about her.”

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249. “There is no God that shall save thee from me,’ she vowed. ‘I am a Prince of Forever, and forever shall I hunt thee. All thou hast, shall I take. All thou art, shall I unmake. And in the end, I shall have thee on thy knees, frailblood. I shall taste thee unto dying.”

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250. “I’ve stood in the houses of the holy, priest. I’ve read his scripture cover to cover, I’ve sung praises to his name, and I tell you now and tell you true: One hand holding a sword is worth ten thousand clasped in prayer.”

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