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

by Jay Kristoff

“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone.

The scream of a girl who understands the monster isn’t under the bed anymore. The monster is in it with her.

I never thought I’d find such peace in simple reading. The words were a kind of magic, taking me by the hand and sweeping me into lands unseen, times unremembered, thoughts unimagined.

“A life without books is a life not lived.

‘What a world this would be, were it not held wholly and solely in the grip of stubborn old men.’

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.

A life without books is a life not lived.’

and told you that though all things must have their ending, so too must then end darkness, and here, now, in this bright and blessed moment, you were alive and breathing.

my friends are the hill I die on.’