Klau

“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

“I have never seen him sleep so deeply. Not even when he was just a babe. The slightest sound would wake him.”
Surprise rippled through me as the hand under mine remained relaxed and still.
“You knew him then?”
“I knew his parents. I called them my friends, and I call Ash one of my own,” he answered, head straightening. His gaze caught mine and held it.
“I think I will call you one of my own.”
I really had to be asleep.
“Why?”
“Because you’ve given him peace.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Shadow in the Ember

“I’d rather die for something that matters than live for nothing at all. And because a man survived long enough to have a grey beard and wrinkles means not that he’s actually lived. To live is to risk. To fear and to fail. A man must dance on the dragon’s teeth to steal the fire from its tongue. Most are burned alive in the attempt. But better to dance and fall than to never have danced at all. Pity not the man who dies too soon, but the one who lingers too long. For those men who pass peaceful in their beds, who slip one night soft into sleep and wake nevermore … can they be said to have been awake at all?”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Damned

“I love you. I fell in love with you in the depths of my soul, and it’s my soul that will find yours again in the next life.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Flame and Shadow