Empire of the Vampire (Empire of the Vampire, #1)

by Jay Kristoff

“See, I never understood that. Why pride is looked on as an evil. You work hard at something you’re not born good at? Damn right you should be

fucking proud. There’s nothing comes of quitting besides the knowledge you didn’t finish.”

The only thing worse than finishing last is not beginning at all. And fuck finishing last.”

There are three ways men view the women of the world, Gabriel. Enemies to be overcome. Prizes to be won. Or as people. My advice is choose the latter, my love. Lest they begin considering you the former.

“A life without books is a life not lived.

There is no hell so cruel as powerlessness.’

Gift a man the most important of lessons, he may forget it amorrow. Gift him a beautiful song, and he shall hum it ’til the day the crows make a castle of his bones.”

Truth is, most men write songs so they can hear themselves sing. And the rest sing not for the song, but for the applause at the end.

Put a man in a room for a hundred years with a thousand books, and he’ll know a million truths. Put him in a room for a year with silence, and he’ll know himself.”

They say the best revenge is living well, but there’s still a lot to be said for dancing beneath the blood moons in a cloak made of your enemy’s skin.