265 Quotes by Jay Kristoff

I am a daughter of the dark between the stars. I am the thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. i am the vengeance of every orphaned daughter, every murdered mother, every bastard son. I am the war you cannot win.

It’s not the bullets that kill you. It’s moments like these. One piece at a time.

Hurts, doesn’t it? When you find out the ones who gave you life are just as mortal and frail as the rest of us? That the world isn’t what you thought it was?

You be the push that makes them move.

The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.

You mean everything to me. Everything I’ve done. All of it. You’re the reason. The first and only reason.

Red waves crashed over her head, the whole world spinning, turning, churning. No breath in her lungs. Blood in her mouth.

At the heart of it, two kinds of people live in this world or any other: those who flee and those who fight.

Deviation’ or whatever you want to call it? That’s just another expression of it. You call it freakish. I call it incredible.