Marya

“But it takes a special sort of cunt to kill helpless beasts, Historian, and while I'm certainly a cunt, apparently I'm just not that special at it.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“This is love. Love is seeing perfection in every flaw. Seeing every flaw as a miracle because it belongs to the person you care about the most. Love is saying, yes, still. Even after all these years”
― Alison Cochrun, Here We Go Again

“I said it to the Flower, I'll say it again: There's a solace to be found in sadness. And I understand why ye’d think ye deserve that dark. Easier to find refuge in drink, in rage, to say hell with it all and push everyone away. Because ye think that cold is easier to live with than the pain that could come if ye let the warmth back in, only to be burned again.
But that's the fire that lets us know we're alive, Gabriel."
‘I shook my head, two pale shadows now rising at my back.
“‘You can't fix a broken blade, Phoebe."
“‘But don't ye see? We don't get broken. We’re made broken. We are not whole alone. But if we're blessed, if we're brave, we might find those few whose edges fit against our own. Like pieces of the same puzzle, or shards of the same shattered blade. Those people who, in their own broken way, make our broken edge complete.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“I know what it is to spit yer hate at skies above. But I also know there is nothing in that deed that does not make yer anger worse. There's nae joy to be found in embracing rage that isn't fleeing. In the end, it only deepens the darkness within. And so, it must - can only - be wrong.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned