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“Fear was a poison. Fear was a prison. Fear was the bridesmaid of regret, the butcher of amibition. The bleak forever between forward and backward. Fear was can't. Fear was won't.

But fear wasn't ever a choice.

To never fear was to never hope, never love, never live. To never fear the dark was to never smile as the dawn kissed your face. To never fear solitude was to never know the joy of a beauty in your arms. Part of having is the fear of losing. Part of creating is the fear of it breaking. Part of beginning is the fear of your ending.

Fear is never a choice.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“This is for me," Mia whispered. "The me who never was. The me who lived in peace and married someone beautiful and perhaps held a daughter in her arms. The me who never knew the taste of blood, or the smell of poison, or the kiss of steel. The me you killed, just as surely as you killed the rest of them.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“I'd have killed the sky for you.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“It has footnotes. What kind of wanker writes a novel with footnotes?”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn