Top 90 S. Jae-Jones Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Without sacrifice, nothing good can grow. Without death, there can be no rebirth.” -Der Erlkonig.”

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2. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”

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3. “What’s the use of running, if we are on the wrong road.”

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4. “Beware. That on burns like kindling. All flash, and no real heat. But you... you smolder, mistress. There is a fire burning within you, but it is a slow burn. It shimmers with heat, waiting only for a breath to fan it to life. Most curious. Most curious, indeed” -Merchant.”

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5. “The wishes we make in the dark have consequences, and the Lord of Mischief will call their reckoning.”

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6. “A wanton women is ripened fruit,′ Constanze intoned,’begging to be plucked by the Goblin King.”

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7. “What will you do when there is no one left to take care of, no one left to look after? Is that when you will finally look after you?”

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8. “My music was elegant, transcendent, ethereal, and I could not bear to behold its beauty. I longed to pull it back beneath my skin, to hide it away in the shadows where it properly belonged, safe where no one could judge it for its flaws.”

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9. “A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick,” I said. “I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out, than sit forever in darkness.”

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10. “You are the one who showed me a way to myself, when I was lost in the woods. My teacher, my playmate, my friend. You allowed me to forgive myself for being imperfect. For being a sinner. For being me.”

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11. “Love is the bridge that spans the world above and below, and keeps the wheel of life turning.”

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12. “This was the Goblin King. The abductor of maidens, the punisher of misdeeds, the Lord of Mischief and the Underground.”

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13. “You are a man with music in his soul. You are capricious, contrary, contradictory. You delight in childish games, and delight even more in winning. For a man of such intense piety, you are surprisingly petty. You are a gentleman, a virtuoso, a scholar, and a martyr, and of those masks, I like the martyr least of all. You are austere, you are pompous, you are pretentious, you are foolish.”

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14. “You are the monster I claim, mein Herr.”

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15. “Humans were not meant for isolation. WE were not meant for loneliness.”

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16. “But hope... hope was stubborn. Like a weed it returned, even after I had plucked it away again and again.”

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17. “Loveliness of the spirit is worth more than loveliness of the flesh.”

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18. “Was my sacrifice worth it? I felt hollow and bereft, yet the grief in my heart had palpable weight, bearing me down to the ground. I could not breathe. I carried the burden of my love for my family, and it threatened to suffocate me.”

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19. “Perhaps I loved the monstrous because I was a monster. Josef, the Goblin King, and me. We were grotesques in the world above, too different, too odd, too talented, too much. We were all too much.”

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20. “The kiss is sweeter than sin and fiercer than temptation. I am not gentle, I am not kind; I am rough and wild and savage. I bite, I nip, I lick, I devour. I want and I want and I want and I want. I hold nothing back.”

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21. “But does the king serve the crown, or the crown serve the king?”

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22. “I am wildness and madness made flesh. You’re just a girl”–he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–“and I am the wolf in the woods.”

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23. “You live an unlife instead,” I said. I held the ring before me and looked at it. It was old, tarnished, and even a little ugly. “An unlife, a not-death. You exist in the in-between spaces, between sleep and waking, between belief and imagination. I wish I could wake up, mein Herr. I wish I were awake.”

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24. “I looked him straight in the eye. “What was it your father used to say?” Hans said nothing. He turned his head away. “What’s the use of running, if we are on the wrong road?”

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25. “You didn’t tell me living would be one decision after another, some easy, some difficult. You didn’t tell me living wasn’t a battle, but a war. You didn’t tell me that living was a choice, and that every day I choose to continue was another victory, another triumph.”

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26. “I would shape the world to fit the music in my soul. I.”

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27. “The role of the king underground is a burden, you know. Each year, the turning of the seasons becomes harder and harder, for the further away from life and love the years take you, the less human you become. It takes love, you see, to bring the world back to life” -Der Erlkonig.”

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28. “Elisabeth.” The way the Goblin King said my name made my heart flutter. “Will you marry me?” This time, it was a long time before I replied. “Yes,” I said. “Yes, I will.”

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29. “The kiss is sweeter than sin and fiercer than temptation. I am not gentle, I am not kind; I am rough and wild and savage.”

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30. “You have something much more enduring than beauty,” she said severely. “And what is that?” “Grace,” she said simply. “Grace, and talent.” I.”

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31. “Skills could be taught, but talent could not.”

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32. “You have to love the land, and the people who live in it. Love is the bridge that spans the world above and below, and keeps the wheel of life turning” -Der Erlkonig.”

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33. “What are monsters but mortals corrupted?”

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34. “Ah, but are we not, in some ways, all trapped in a labyrinth of our own making?” the Goblin King asked lightly.”

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35. “So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope’s twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse.”

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36. “To grow old was to have lived a full life.”

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37. “Even if I did find his name and unlock his soul, there was the man I loved and the monster I craved. I did not know how to free one without losing the other.”

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38. “She was the sun and he was the earth waking from a thaw.”

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39. “For love is our only immortality, and when memory is faded and gone, it is our legacies that endure.”

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40. “If it were only feathers that could transform a sparrow into a peacock” -Liesl.”

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41. “He looked at me as no one had before, as though I were more the sum of my eyes, my nose, my lips, my hair, and my wretched plainness. He looked as though he saw me entire, as though he knew me” -Liesl.”

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42. “Wait? I had waited my entire life for this moment. Not for consummation, but for validation; I desired so hard I wanted to be found desirable in return. The Goblin King saw me – all of me – and now I wanted him to know me. I pushed away his restraining hand and leaped forward; I was a cat, a wolf, a huntress. I was out for blood and flesh.”

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43. “Once there was a little girl who played her music for a little boy in the wood. She was small and dark, he was tall and fair, and the two of them made a fancy pair as they danced together, dancing to the music the little girl heard in her head.”

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44. “Once there was a little girl, who played her music for a little boy in the wood. She was an innkeeper’s daughter and he was the Lord of Mischief, but neither were wholly what they seemed, for nothing is as simple as a fairy tale.”

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45. “Promises, eh? You make so many, but how many of them can you keep?”

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46. “What is eternal life but a prolonged death.”

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47. “You asked, I answered,” he said. “The answer is you. What I want is you – entire.”

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48. “So I tried my best to stifle hope. Because hope’s twin was despair, and despair was infinitely worse. If hope hurt, then despair was the absence of hurt. It was the absence of feeling. It was the absence of caring. I wanted very much to care.”

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49. “Her grandmother had told her to beware the wolves that prowled in the wood, but the little girl knew the little boy was not dangerous, even if he was the king of the goblins. Will you marry me, Elisabeth? the little boy asked, and the little girl did not wonder at how he knew her name. Oh, she replied, but I am too young to marry. Then I will wait, the little boy said. I will wait as long as you remember. And.”

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50. “Have I not?” I gestured to the night sky. “I have beaten you and your godforsaken labyrinth.” “Ah, but are we not, in some ways, all trapped in a labyrinth of our own making?” the Goblin King asked lightly.”

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