Jay Kristoff Quotes

“Mia stayed where she was, distrust plain in her eyes.
"I've got tea," Mercurio sighed. "And cake."
The girl covered her growling belly with both palms.
". . . What kind of cake?"
"The free kind."
Mia pouted. Licked her lips and tasted blood.
"My favorite."
And she took the old man's hand.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“...Because the voices in your head that say otherwise are just fear talking. Never listen to fear.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“Your kind have perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“Apparently she's got revenge on her mind, and it's really annoying when people try to talk at you while you're feeling murderish.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“I am often told I defy expectations.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“Dark now. Blacker than black, I know it. And words are tiny things in the face of all that dark and all that cold. But hear these words, little sister. Hear and know. Tomorrow is coming, just as fast as the turning of the sky. And as sure as it’s black now, the sun will rise. Always. No matter how faint the glow.”
― Jay Kristoff, Endsinger

“You can be anything you want. Fate deals us our hand, but we decide how to play it. We all of us choose the people we want to be.”
― Jay Kristoff, Endsinger

“It's great to be good, it's better to be lucky.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“Hanna: I got one of their headsets. Will that help?
Pauchok: unless you know the freqs they're transmitting on, it's as useful as a master's degree in philosophy”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“The computer is impressive in scale, but ultimately a mere calculator. No real intelligence within it. No thought. No creativity. No soul.”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina

“I'll keep your secrets. Shut my mouth. But I can't shut my eyes.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“But I don't know, so I have to believe. Sometimes, it's easy, and sometimes it's hard.”
― Amie Kaufman

“Gabriel, if this is victory...what the hell does defeat look like?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“All that stood between us now were two words. Strange how so much power, so much peril and promise, resides in so tiny a thing. Two little words can carry weight enough to see empires rise and kingdoms fall. Two words can begin the end of everything. 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.
"Forgive me."
"Do it."
"I can't."
"You must.”
― Jay Kristoff

“Eh... you can tell it was written by a man.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn