265 Quotes by Jay Kristoff

Good turn to you, gentlefriends. It’s lovely to see you again. I confess, I missed you in our time apart. And now, reunited, would that I could simply greet you with a smile, and let you be about the business of murder and revenge and occasional lashings of tastefully written smut.

They will never see the knife in your hand if they are lost in your eyes. They will never taste the poison in their wine when they are drunk on the sight of you.” A small shrug. “Beauty simply makes it easier, love. Easier than you have it now. It may be sad. It may be wrong. But it is also true.

Better to rule in hell,” the beautiful man smiles, “than serve in heaven.

When all is bood, blood is all.

The butterfly remembers being the caterpillar. But do you think it feels anything but pity for that thing crawling around in the muck? Once it has spread those beautiful wings and learned to fly?

Patience, she’d tell herself, whispering the word like a prayer. If Vengeance has a mother, her name is Patience.

I’d have killed the sky for you.

I denied death for you.

Breathing in the ink and feeling all those wonderful lives beneath you fingertips. In between the pages, I’m an emperor. An adventurer. A warrior and a wanderer. In between pages I’m not myself-and more myself than in any other place on earth.