265 Quotes by Jay Kristoff

My mother teases my father, saying he can only create people, while authors can create entire worlds.

If Vengeance has a mother, her name is Patience.

The last thing you will ever be in this world, girl, is someone’s hero. But you will be a girl heroes fear.

And last, the language of cats. O, yes, cats speak gentlefriend, doubt it not – if you own more than one and can’t see them at this particular moment, chances are they’re off in a corner somewhere lamenting the fact that their owner seems to spend all their time reading silly books rather than paying them the attention they so richly deserve.

A man must accept his fate, little Crow. Or be consumed by it.

But to live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die. And to burn in the memories of our friends is to never say goodbye.

For a moment, she wasn’t Mia Corvere, daughter of a murdered house, parched with the thirst for revenge. Not a fledgling assassin or a servant of a goddess. Just a girl. And he a boy. Their eyes blind to all but each other. Aalea’s voice echoing in her ears.

Thus, the greatest monsters get their way, she realized. By looking just like the rest of us.

Never flinch. Never fear. And never, ever forget.