Top 280 Jay Kristoff Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

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

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253. “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.”

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254. “It’s a fool who plays at the precipice. But only the prince of fools blames another when he falls.”

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255. “It’s only in storybooks some little bastard picks up a sword and wields it like he was born to it. The rest of us? We have to work our arses off. And we might not ever taste triumph, but at least we dared to fail.”

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

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

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258. “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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259. “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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260. “When you’ve lost everything,” she whispered, “you’re free to do anything.”

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

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

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “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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266. “And to the swell of that horrid tune, legs kicking, face purpling, her father had begun dancing.”

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267. “Affection’s a two-way street.”

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

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269. “Tantos libros y tan poco tiempo!”

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270. “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.”

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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276. “People feared what they didn’t understand, and hated what they feared.”

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

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278. “He built things, and he broke things, my papa. And I realized that perhaps one of the things he’d broken had been me.”

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279. “What a world this would be, were it not held wholly and solely in the grip of stubborn old men.”

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280. “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.”

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