Top 74 Jay Kristoff Quotes
#1. RAIJIN, TAKE ME NOW.
She shot Buruu a withering glance as he rolled over on his back and pawed at the sky.
HAVE MERCY ON ME, FATHER. TAKE MY WINGS. CHAIN ME TO STINKING EARTH. BUT THIS TORTURE I CANNOT ENDURE.
Oh, shut it.
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#2. Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.
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#3. You might get only one shot. So shoot. You know who said that?"
The rifle clatters to the bloody floor.
"Hanna FUCKING Donnelly. That's who.
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#4. Just a tiny moment of illumination, a heartbeat long ... page 348.
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#5. 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.
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#6. An avalanche starts with one pebble. A forest with one seed. And it takes one word to make the whole world stop and listen. All you need is the right one.
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#7. To be a servant can be a noble thing, but only as noble as the master served.
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#8. Yukiko steered the subject away from sex as fast as she could. She was still occasionally woken by nightmares about the day her father had tried to sit her down for "the talk".
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#9. It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.
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#10. You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You deserve someone who'll run with you as far and as fast as you want to. Holding your hand, not holding you back.
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#11. Too many to defeat.
But not too many to fight.
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#12. You're hungry.
The beast glared.
STAY OUT OF MY MIND, INSECT.
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#13. You wear your heart on your sleeve. Guard it more carefully, lest others see it and pluck it out.
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#14. There are plenty of genre-crossover books, films, and games out there, but to do the job well, you have to do more than just smoosh a couple of 'in' concepts together, and hey presto, instant millions.
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#16. On Salem's Lot: " My favorite vampire story ever. I first read this 20 years ago, and I can still quote lines from it.
"You have been ill-used, Mr Bryant."
"I will see you sleep like the dead, teacher."
"The boy makes ten of you, false priest."
Fuck twilight. Seriously ...
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#17. You give people hope, Yukiko. The strength at the heart of all strength. The steps you take now, the first steps- they are always the hardest. But the footprints you leave in the earth behind you will be followed by thousands.
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#18. WHEN IT IS DONE, WE WILL FLY FAR FROM HERE. FAR FROM THIS SCAB AND ITS POISONED SKY.
WE WILL DANCE IN THE STORMS, YOU AND I.
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#19. You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.
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#21. Forget the girl who had everything. She died when her father did."
"But I--"
"Nothing is where you start. Own nothing. Know nothing."
"But why would I want to do that?"
His smile made her smile in return.
"Because then you can do anything.
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#22. 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
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#23. He wants a thunder tiger, Akihito."
"Well, I want a woman who can touch her ears with her ankles, cook a decent meal and keep her opinions to herself. But they don't fucking exist either!
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#24. Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns ... It is a weapon ... and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.
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#25. If I were going to name my blade," Mia said thoughtfully, "I'd call it 'Fluffy.
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#26. I don't know my limit, but I'm scared to reach it. I don't know what will happen if I do. And I still can't sleep.
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#27. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.
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#28. The brighter the light, the deeper the shadow.
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#29. He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms.
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#30. You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.
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#31. Then know this. Between and beneath and beyond anything else i may be, i am yours. I will never leave you. never forsake you. You may rely upon sun to rise and moon to fall. For you are the heart of me.
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#33. The thunder tiger looked at her like an avalanche looks at a butterfly.
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#34. Listen, girl," Aelius sniffed. "The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.
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#35. Iron or glass? they'd ask.
She was neither.
She was steel.
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#36. It's easy to lose yourself in the idea of a person and be blinded to their reality.
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#38. And within the computer's innards, a spreading cancer. A self-replicating corruption. A B-pop mutiny of bass and drum and oscillating frequency. Inane quasi poetry glorifying a pointless act of intimacy.
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#39. If her face were a puzzle, most would put it back in the box, unfinished. Moreover,
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#40. Sometimes weakness is a weapon. If you're smart enough to use it.
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#42. Tiger proudly roars.
Dragon dives and Phoenix soars.
Fox gets the chicken.
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#43. Our troubles are but mayflies, rising and falling between the turn of dawn and dusk. And then they are gone to the houses of memory, you and I will remain, Yukiko.
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#44. He's probably out there in the hallway right now, composing bad poetry in his head." Michi cleared her throat, her voice taking on a breathless lilt:
"Pale Fox's Daughter,
Her cherry lips haunt my dreams.
Something, something, breasts ...
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#45. Each of you must decide where you stand. All we ask is that you refuse to kneel. You are the people. You have the power. Open your eyes. Open your minds. Then close the fingers on your hand.
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#46. A split second. An eternity. Into the breach. Across the brink. A micron wide. Deep as forever. Of all our infinite possibilities, these are but two.
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#47. With a far-future setting merging Chinese and American culture, 'Firefly' also saw high-tech futurism blended with the traditional Wild West.
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#48. The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.
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#49. The gaze of Daniio's slow cousin eye seemed to be wandering off, as if distracted by pretty flowers, or perhaps a rainbow.*
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#50. Just because you're standing in a crowd doesn't mean you belong there.
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#51. Hanna D: Your pep talks ----ing suck, AIDAN.
AIDAN: . . . Suck what?
Hanna D: Never mind.
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#52. You lied to me."
"I never lied. I just didn't tell you the whole truth."
"You said you were alone."
"I am alone."
"There's hundreds of you. Maybe thousands. You and your 'family' are everywhere."
"Just because you're standing in a crowd doesn't mean you belong there." -Yukiko and Kin
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#53. If you can't hurt the ones who hurt you, sometimes hurting anyone will do. All
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#54. And who am I, mighty Khan?
She felt warmth in him then, the beginnings of a smile deep inside.
He spread his wings.
Bowed his head.
Purred.
YOU ARE YUKIKO.
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#56. Never Flinch.' A cold whisper in her ear. 'Never fear. And never, ever forget.'
The girl nodded slowly.
Exhaled the hope inside.
And she'd watched her father die.
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#57. This is how the rain becomes a flood. One drop at a time.
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#58. Though she knew she should probably be frightened at the sight, instead Mia took a deep breath, combed her fingers through her air, and stepped out of the alley, right into a slop pile of what she hoped was mud.*
* It was not mud. Alas.
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#59. Own nothing. Know nothing. Be nothing.
Because then you can do anything.
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#60. This is a sensationally bad idea, Ash." "So you said. About twenty times now." "You remember what Marielle did to Hush?" "Maw's teeth, Corvere. When my da got tortured in the Thorn Towers of Elai, they chopped his bollocks off and fed them to the scabdogs. What's your excuse?
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#61. Mia looked over the new bruises on Tric's face, shook her head. 'My brave centurion. Riding in on his charger to save his poor damsel? Hold me, brave sir, I fear I shall swoon.
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#62. I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think.
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#63. In its brief 14-episode run, 'Firefly' gave viewers as much chance of witnessing a horseback chase or train robbery as a laser gun and spacefight in any given episode. Snappy one-liners and silly hats were a constant, of course.
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#64. Lay hand upon me again, sir, and I'll feed your jewels to the fucking drakes.
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#65. 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.
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#66. It's truth to say in all save solitude - and in some sad cases, even then - you can always count on the company of fools.
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#68. People often shit themselves when they die. Their muscles slack and their souls flutter free and everything else just...slips out.
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#69. The Light is full of lies, Acolyte. The Suns serve only to blind us.
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#70. Just so you know, if it comes down to cannibalism, you get eaten first.
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#71. ENOUGH NOISE. STAND ASIDE. I WILL GUT HIM.
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#72. A conscience is easier to swallow on an empty belly, simpler to swing with a broken wrist.
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#73. You have me. Until the last star in the galaxy dies, you have me.
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#74. Dying is easy. Anyone can throw themselves onto the pyre and rest a happy martyr. Enduring the suffering that comes with sacrifice is the real test.
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