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

by Jay Kristoff

“‘God didn’t want me. And the devil was afraid to open the door.’

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

“A life without books is a life not lived.

“Music is a truth beyond telling. A bridge between strangest souls. Two men who speak not a word of each other’s tongues may yet feel their hearts soar likewise at the same refrain. 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.”

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.”

And imagine, just for a second, the sense of entitlement it takes to ask him for anything in the first place.

Your past is stone, but your future is clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.’

‘I’ve walked the halls of the king in yellow.

This is war, Dior. Peasants starve so soldiers can eat. Soldiers bleed so generals can win. Generals fall so emperors can keep their thrones. It’s the way it’s always been.’