Ethan Jeffries > Ethan's Quotes

“Hear me Niah, hear me Mother. This flesh your feast. This blood your wine. This life, this end, my gift to you. Hold him close.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Nothing is where you start. Own nothing. Know nothing. Be nothing.’ ‘Why would I want to do that?’ The old man crushed out his cigarillo on the boards between them. His smile made her smile in return. ‘Because then you can do anything.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Never let your face tell a secret your lips should not.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“They will never see the knife in your hand if they are lost in your eyes. They will never taste the poison in their wine when they are drunk on the sight of you." A small shrug. "Beauty simply makes it easier, love. Easier than you have it now. It may be sad. It may be wrong. But it is also true.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“It's the smallest spiders that have the darkest poison, lads.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“The brighter the light, the deeper the shadows.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Iron or glass? they'd ask.
She was neither.
She was steel.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Sometimes weakness is a weapon. If you're smart enough to use it.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“When all is bood, blood is all.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“If I were going to name my blade," Mia said thoughtfully, "I'd call it 'Fluffy.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“If you can’t hurt the ones who hurt you, sometimes hurting anyone will do.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“She looked to Mister Kindly, sitting on the road beside her.
'Not. A. Fucking. Word.'
'. . . meow . . .' he said.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“If her face were a puzzle, most would put it back in the box, unfinished.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Before I found you, I was just a shape waiting in the shadows.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“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