Eleazar Hernandez > Eleazar's Quotes

“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.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Too many books. Too few centuries.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“I appear to have misplaced the fucks I give for what you think.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Never flinch" A cold whisper in her ear. "Never fear. And never, ever forget.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“A life without books is a life not lived.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“She'd grown up inside books. No matter how dark life became, shutting out the hurt was as easy as opening a cover. A child of murdered parents and a failed rebellion, she'd still walked in the boots of scholars and warriors, queens and conquerors.

The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“Iron or glass? they'd ask.
She was neither.
She was steel.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Cock is just another word for 'fool.' But you call someone a cunt, well..." The girl smiled. "You're implying a sense of malice there. An intent. Malevolent and self-aware. Don't think I name Consul Scaeva a cunt to gift him insult. Cunts have brains, Don Tric. Cunts have teeth. Someone calls you a cunt, you take it as a compliment. As a sign that folks believe you're not to be lightly fucked with.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Sometimes weakness is a weapon. If you're smart enough to use it.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“If Vengeance has a mother, her name is Patience.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“When all is bood, blood is all.”
― Jay Kristoff, Nevernight

“Conquer your fear, and you can conquer the world.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“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.”
― Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

“That's the power of words; twenty six little letter can paint a whole universe”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“Aim your heart at the fucking world.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“There's no softer pillow than a clear conscience.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“If we spend all our lives in darkness, is it any wonder when darkness starts to live in us?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Vampire

“We have a saying in Vaan," Byern replied.
"In every breath, hope abides."
(...)
"Just keep breathing, little Crow.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave

“The heavens grant us only one life, but through books, we live a thousand.”
― Jay Kristoff, Godsgrave