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

by Jay Kristoff

“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.”

“The only thing worse than a fool is a fool who thinks himself wise.”

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