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181 " Thus, the greatest monsters get their way, she realized. By looking just like the rest of us. "
― Jay Kristoff , Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle, #2)
182 " But even the moon loved our girl too much to let her die for long. "
― Jay Kristoff , Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #3)
183 " Never flinch. Never fear. And never, ever forget. "
184 " Too many to defeat.But not too many to fight. "
― Jay Kristoff , Stormdancer (The Lotus Wars, #1)
185 " The greatest gulf between people is always pride, "
186 " But it's a terrible thing, Dona Mia, when the ones who should love you best leave you for the wolves. "
187 " Then know this. Between and beneath and beyond anything else i may be, i am yours. I will never leave you. never forsake you. You may rely upon sun to rise and moon to fall. For you are the heart of me. "
― Jay Kristoff , Kinslayer (The Lotus Wars, #2)
188 " You promised to remember her. Not just the good parts. The ugly parts and the selfish parts and the real parts, too. All of her, Mercurio, who can do that ,if not you? "
189 " It's easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality. It's a simple thing, to love a stranger. "
― Jay Kristoff
190 " There is power in words.There are words that bid us laugh and make us weep. Words to begin with and words to end by. Words that seize the hearts in our chests and squeeze them tight, that set the skin on our bones to tingling. Words so beautiful they shape us, forever change us, live inside us for as long as we have breath to speak them. There are forgotten words. Killing words. Great and frightening and terrible words. There are True words.And then there are pictures. "
191 " there's nothing quite the same as sitting with a real book in your hands "
― Jay Kristoff , LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike, #1)
192 " It’s quite a thing, to watch a person slip from the potential of life into the finality of death. It’s another thing entirely to be the one who pushed. And for all Mercurio’s teachings, she was still a sixteen-year-old girl who’d just committed her first act of murder. "
193 " Your scars tell who you are. Your skin is the page, and your scars are the ink, telling the story of your life. "
194 " Sex is a weapon. Your eyes? Your body? Your smile?’ She shrugged. ‘Weapons. And they give you more power than a thousand swords. Open more gates than a thousand War Walkers. Love has toppled kings, Mia. Ended empires. Even broken our poor, sunsburned sky "
― Jay Kristoff , Nevernight (The Nevernight Chronicle, #1)
195 " And last, the language of cats. O, yes, cats speak gentlefriend, doubt it not—if you own more than one and can’t see them at this particular moment, chances are they’re off in a corner somewhere lamenting the fact that their owner seems to spend all their time reading silly books rather than paying them the attention they so richly deserve "
196 " To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die. "
197 " I'll do anything you ask, and everything you won't. "
198 " You're sailing awfully close to the shores of a little island most call None of Your Fucking Business. "
― Jay Kristoff , Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)
199 " You be the push that makes them move. "
― Jay Kristoff , Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
200 " Good turn to you, gentlefriends. It’s lovely to see you again. I confess, I missed you in our time apart. And now, reunited, would that I could simply greet you with a smile, and let you be about the business of murder and revenge and occasional lashings of tastefully written smut. "