Al

“That's the way to wisdom, vampire. The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool from his friends, but even the fool can learn if his friends are willing to call him one.

Surround yourself with folk who confront you. If you're not being challenged, you're not learning anything. If you're the smartest man in the room, you're in the wrong fucking room.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Villain,” she said lightly.
“Angel,” he retorted.”
― India Holton, The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

“To hate the thing that is completing you. To love the thing that is destroying you. What perfect suffering. What hell divine.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“But science’s biggest flaw and biggest virtue is that it almost always mistakes agreement for truth.”
― Zoë Schlanger, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth