265 Quotes by Jay Kristoff

Before I found you, I was just a shape waiting in the shadows.

You’ll be a rumor. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be, girl, is someone’s hero.

You can take the girl from the gutter, but not the gutter from the girl. Sadly, the same can be said about the glitter.

Grandpa said it’s always better to be shot at for who you are than hugged for who you aren’t.

Love has toppled kings, Mia. Ended empires. Even broken out poor, sunsburned sky.

In between the pages, I’m an emperor. An adventurer. A warrior and a wanderer. In between the pages I’m not myself-and more myself than in any other place on earth.

Beauty you’re born with, but brains you earn.

A girl who was to murder as maestros are to music.

She is stubborn, and moves, even when it seems she cannot. But sometimes, as she crawls along, she cries slow, fat tears. And other times, she looks at her palm pad. And other times, she closes her eyes and meditates, or wishes, or simply grieves. But always, always, she crawls.