Top 280 Jay Kristoff Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “But when you’re looking down the barrel at your own funeral, even doing something stupid sounds better than doing nothing at all.”

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff

253. “Part of having is the fear of losing. Part of creating is the fear of it breaking. Part of beginning is the fear of your ending. Fear is never a choice. Never a choice. But letting it rule you is.”

— Jay Kristoff

254. “Putting two and two together, the girl discovered she was beginning to hate mathematics.”

— Jay Kristoff

255. “Affection’s a two-way street.”

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff

258. “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.”

— Jay Kristoff

259. “I will not give my heart to a coward. I will give it to a lion.”

— Jay Kristoff

260. “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.”

— Jay Kristoff

261. “You can try to fill it with whatever you like. Wine. Women. Work. In the end, a hole is still a hole.”

— Jay Kristoff

262. “And as I’d once told Astrid, other people’s business was ever my favorite kind.”

— Jay Kristoff

263. “A book captures a story within its pages. Not like a specimen pinned out lifelessly for display, but vivid and alive. A whole world lies within the cover, a life waiting to e lived by each new reader.”

— Jay Kristoff

264. “But dreamweed was a hard narcotic, favored of soothsingers, authors, and other worthless tossers.”

— Jay Kristoff

265. “Tantos libros y tan poco tiempo!”

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff

267. “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.”

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff

270. “When your whole world is going to hell, all you need is someone who sounds like he knows the way.”

— Jay Kristoff

271. “I asked myself if God loved us, how it was he could hate that we found love ourselves.”

— Jay Kristoff

272. “My mother teases my father, saying he can only create people, while authors can create entire worlds. Father always smiles and replies, “Give me time, love.”

— Jay Kristoff

273. “HERE’S A TRUTH about sword fighting, coldblood: Even if you’re bad at it, when the person you’re fighting doesn’t have one? You’re still going to be pretty good.”

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff

275. “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.”

— Jay Kristoff

276. “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?”

— Jay Kristoff

277. “The book was near falling to pieces, but the lettering was still visible, faint and faded, oui, but still there. This, too, was a strange immortality. Poems, stories, ideas, frozen forever in time. The simple wonder of books.”

— Jay Kristoff

278. “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.”

— Jay Kristoff

279. “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.”

— Jay Kristoff

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

— Jay Kristoff