265 Quotes by Jay Kristoff

Here is truth, gentlefriends: when in doubt, it’s best to be polite when dealing with lunatics.

It’s simple to love someone on the days that are easy. But you find out what your love is made of on the days that are hard.

Little kindnesses that spoke of the biggest hearts.

My name is Mia Corvere. Blade of the Red Church. Champion of the Venatus Magni. Chosen of the Dark Mother and Queen of Scoundrels. Never call me girl again.

Two years I searched for you,” he said. “Two years of empty wastes and endless roads. Of not knowing if I’d ever see you again. By when the ash rose up to choke me, it was thoughts of you that helped me breathe. When the night seemed never-ending, it was dreams of you that helped me sleep. You. And only you.

The littlest spiders have the darkest bite.

It’s quite a thing, to watch a person slip from the potential of life into the finality of death. It’s another thing entirely to be the one who pushed. And for all Mercurio’s teachings, she was still a sixteen-year-old girl who’d just committed her first act of murder. Her.

But even the moon loved our girl too much to let her die for long.

It’s hard to imagine, but even amid so much violence and chaos and loss, somehow the universe sometimes still manages to look beautiful.