Top 300 Julie Kagawa Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Fear not for I am a cat.”

— Julie Kagawa

152. “Even if I turned ninety, lost my mind and forgot everytging else, the memory of the Winter prince would be a shining beacon that would never fade.”

— Julie Kagawa

153. “Magic itself cannot be evil. It is how you use your powers that determines the intent.”

— Julie Kagawa

154. “Please attempt to use the brain I know is hidden somewhere in that head. There.”

— Julie Kagawa

155. “So... maybe it was okay to hope, to trust that things could work out. Maybe... maybe that was what had kept me human all this time, that faith that I could be more than a monster. When I lost that hope – that was when the monster won.”

— Julie Kagawa

156. “Observe and blend in,” he stated in his cool, unruffled voice. “Learn how to engage with humans, how to be human. Assimilate into their social structure and make them believe we are one of them.”

— Julie Kagawa

157. “If you’re done playing with will-o’-the-wisps and kelpies, I think we should continue. Oh, but do tell me the next time you want to have tea with an ogre. I’ll be sure to bring my club. -Puck.”

— Julie Kagawa

158. “I could see us sitting at the old piano, while he tried to explain how music worked. I could see the Iron glamour in the notes, the strict lines and rigid rules that made up the score, but the music itself was a vortex of song and pure, swirling emotion. They weren’t separate entities, creative magic and Iron glamour. They were one; cold logic and wild emotion, merged together to create something truly beautiful.”

— Julie Kagawa

159. “Oh, isn’t that sweet,” came Jackal’s loud, mocking voice... “Let’s make goo-goo eyes at each other in the middle of a stinking corpse field, how very romantic.”

— Julie Kagawa

160. “Well, I can answer that,” Jackal said breezily, and bared his fangs in a lethal grin. “He can die. Painfully. After I rip his other arm from the socket and shove it so far down his poetry-spouting piehole that he chokes on it. What I don’t understand is why we’re standing up here yapping away when we should be down there kicking in his door. So, come on, team.” Jackal’s gaze was mocking but dangerous. “Let’s go kill ourselves a psychopath.”

— Julie Kagawa

161. “Never did like the idea of meeting a god. Somehow, I get the feeling gods just don’t like me very much.”

— Julie Kagawa

162. “Riley was... a really good kisser.”

— Julie Kagawa

163. “I wished I had told her what I was doing. I wished I had said more, argued more. Maybe then I wouldn’t have this hollow ache in my chest whenever I thought of our parting words. Had she already moved on, forgotten me? In her position, what she said made sense, but the thought of her with someone else made me wish I had something to fight, to kill, just so I could forget.”

— Julie Kagawa

164. “Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.”

— Julie Kagawa

165. “Before Kanin Turned me, death was something I faced every day. People died, often; it was just how the world worked. I thought that, after the deaths of my old gang and Stick’s betrayal, I wouldn’t worry about anyone else. And yet, here I was, a vampire, wishing I could have saved the very person who hated me most.”

— Julie Kagawa

166. “For a moment, unseen by condemning human eyes, I gave into my fascination and let myself look at her. Her pale skin seemed to glow in the moonlight slanting through the latticed windows, her hair an inky curtain across her back and shoulders. She breathed calmly, her face unguarded in sleep, as it was when she was awake. A jet-black strand of hair came loose to fall into her eyes, and I was filled with and incomprehensible urge to brush it back.”

— Julie Kagawa

167. “If you’re not an expert at screwing people over, I’ll eat my head.”

— Julie Kagawa

168. “Careful, human.” Grimalkin appeared on the corner of the stage, overshadowed by the dead chimera. “Do not lose your heart to a faery prince. It never ends well.”

— Julie Kagawa

169. “I was neither human nor dragon. Just me.”

— Julie Kagawa

170. “I swallowed, feeling something inside me respond, a rush of warmth spreading through my veins. My own dragon, calling to Riley’s, like he was her other half.”

— Julie Kagawa

171. “So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn’t be there anymore.”

— Julie Kagawa

172. “Remind me to kill Grimalkin next time we see him.”

— Julie Kagawa

173. “But I wasn’t human anymore. And I wasn’t as afraid of them as I once was. I was part of their world now, part of the darkness.”

— Julie Kagawa

174. “Forward,” Ember replied. “Always forward. Its a new day, and anything is possible.”

— Julie Kagawa

175. “Tatsumi has been taught to resist pain, manipulation, seduction, even mind control and blood magic. But I neglected to warn him about the most dangerous emotion of all.” A bitter smile curled one corner of his mouth. “After everything we put him through, I honestly thought the boy incapable of it. Apparently, I can still be surprised, after all these years.”

— Julie Kagawa

176. “Zeke’s snort sounded suspiciously like laughter. “Allie you’re a beautiful, exotic-looking vampire girl with a katana. Trust me, if anyone is going to attract attention, it’s not going to be me.”

— Julie Kagawa

177. “But Jackal gave a low, humorless chuckle. ‘Oh you bastard.’ He smiled, shaking his head and staring up at the barn. ‘That’s cute. Let’s see if you’re as funny when I’m beating you to death with your own arm.”

— Julie Kagawa

178. “You know we always travel in little skinny boats like this why can’t travel to the end of the world in a yacht -Puck.”

— Julie Kagawa

179. “Um, I guess you’re still mad about that whole harpy fiasco. I swear, I thought those caves were empty.” “How did you overlook a hundred harpies nesting in that cave? Did the giant carpet of bones not tip you off?” “Oh, sure, complain now. But we found the trod to Athens, didn’t we?”

— Julie Kagawa

180. “Yeah, this is the psycho’s handiwork, but he could’ve done this just for the jollies. You sure he knows we’re coming?”

— Julie Kagawa

181. “Rabids, the stranger had called them. It fit. I wondered where he was now, where he was going. I hoped, wherever it was, he would find his peace.”

— Julie Kagawa

182. “My queen,” he said formally, “before Glitch sends out the knights and the hounds to drag us back to Mag Tuiredh, will you do me the honor of a last dance?”

— Julie Kagawa

183. “He closed his eyes, and a single tear crawled down his cheek. I knew I was asking him to do the impossible, and it was tearing me apart that Ash was suffering. But at least I would make it right in the end. I’d promise him that much.”

— Julie Kagawa

184. “Okame groaned. “Hold on,” he growled as we turned toward the door. After pulling the sake gourd from his obi, he yanked off the top and tipped the container upside down into his open mouth, emptying it fully. He wiped his lips, then tossed the bottle at the headman and turned back to us with a grin. “Okay, now I’m ready.”

— Julie Kagawa

185. “I wanted to fly up beyond the clouds, where nothing would hear me but the stars.”

— Julie Kagawa

186. “I sang and sang, until I died. And Sarren gave me a new purpose, a new song. But the requiem isn’t over yet.”

— Julie Kagawa

187. “I’ve been told that there’s a point in every soldier’s life when he knows he’s going to die. You expect it, of course, in every battle, every ambush, every enemy engagement. You are aware that this could be it. This could be the one that ends your life. But, there’s a difference between being aware that you could die, and knowing beyond a doubt, when the situation is hopeless. New dragons dropped from the sky in a dark mass...”

— Julie Kagawa

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188. “Finally.” The cat sniffed and gave me a look of triumph. “I never thought I would see the day when a human said something sensible.”

— Julie Kagawa

189. “The only thing necessary for evil to conquer is for us and those like us to do nothing, and I will not sit by and let that happen!”

— Julie Kagawa

190. “He didn’t know how to laugh, or smile, or have any fun. He didn’t know the pleasures of the simple things – laughing, dancing, finding beauty in the world. It seemed like a very boring existence.”

— Julie Kagawa

191. “For the rest of my existence, if I lived to see the end of this world, there would never be another Ezekiel Crosse. There would never be another soul as bright as his. And that both terrified me and made me savagely – and maybe selfishly – determined to keep him. Zeke was mine now. Forever.”

— Julie Kagawa

192. “His fingertips came to rest against the back of my hand, sending a zip of current through my whole body. “I’m done hiding,” he whispered. “Nothing has changed. I know we might not have a lot of time, but what we do have, I want to spend right here.”

— Julie Kagawa

193. “Ouch. You really know how to tear a guy’s heart out, don’t you, princess?”

— Julie Kagawa

194. “One hand traced small circles against my back, and I pressed closer to him, listening to his heartbeat. “I used to think that having nothing to live for made you a better fighter,” he murmured. “Turns out I was wrong on a lot of fronts.”

— Julie Kagawa

195. “Let me give you your first and most important lesson, Allison Sekemoto – you are a monster.”

— Julie Kagawa

196. “I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.”

— Julie Kagawa

197. “Comment number one – how much do you weigh to snap the bridge like that? I thought you Asians were supposed to be petite and dainty.”

— Julie Kagawa

198. “You’re here, and the only dance I want is this one.”

— Julie Kagawa

199. “How easy it is to forget grudges when someone has something you need.”

— Julie Kagawa

200. “I’m a cat.”

— Julie Kagawa