Empire Of The Damned Quotes

“We only die if we are forgotten. Burn bright. Burn brief. But burn.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“The right book is worth a hundred blades”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“That's the way to wisdom, vampire. The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool from his friends, but even the fool can learn if his friends are willing to call him one.

Surround yourself with folk who confront you. If you're not being challenged, you're not learning anything. If you're the smartest man in the room, you're in the wrong fucking room.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“No fear. Only fury.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Those hurt will hurt in kind. Cruelty is an infection, spread from one victim to the next; an avalanche rolling ever downhill and crashing worst upon those at the bottom of the pile.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“It’s a strange thing, to be a sibling. So much rancor and love. Hate and history. It’s a bond forged in iron, that tie. It takes a great deal of work to sunder it entirely. But it can be done.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“We stand the weight, that others might be spared the burden.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Folk who know nothing still insist on saying something.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Better to be a bastard than a fool.'

Jean-François smiled. 'You are not a bastard, de León. You are a cunt.'

'Well. You are what you eat, vampire.'

'Charming.'

'My wife certainly thought so.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“I heard ye were dead, de León."

""Heaven was full. And the devil was afraid to open the door.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Gabriel, if this is victory...what the hell does defeat look like?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Eat shit, you limp-dicked coward.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“I know what it is to grow up with a mother who doesn’t care. I know a woman who has a statue of herself erected in her own bloody foyer probably had some demons, and growing up in that statues shadow probably left you with some too.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“I mean it," I told her, searching her eyes.

"By the Blood, I vow it. I know not where this road will lead us, girl. But I'll walk it with you, to whatever fate awaits. And if God Himself should tear us asunder, if all the Endless Legion stood in my path, I would find my way back from the shores of the abyss to fight at your side. I'll not leave you, Dior." Reaching down, I squeezed her hands tight as I dared.

''I will never leave you.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Hear me now. If the legions of heaven stood between me and that girl, I would slay every angel in the Host to get back to her side. She and I have walked through hell together. I will never leave her, you hear me? And I would never hurt her.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“Sleep now, my lovely, sleep now, my dear"
"Dark dreams will fade now your papa is near.
"Fear not the monsters, fear not the night,
"Papa is here now and all shall be right.
"Close your eyes, darling, and know this be true,
"Morning will come, and your papa loves you.”
― Jay Kristoff

“We are creatures who walk between the rain, awake in the forever between seconds.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned