Empire of the Dawn Quotes

“It helps to hate the things you fight. But it’s far better to love the things you defend.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“It took a lot of love to hate her the way I do.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Will you pray with me, my son?” ‘“I’d rather shit in my hands and clap.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Memory is an unreliable narrator at best, and at worst, a lying fiend.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Sometimes life changes us for the better. Sometimes the worse. But everything under the sky is in the process of becoming something else. Something new. This is a world of butterflies.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“… Fuck my face.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“It is a fine gift to have others believe in you, sinner. It is a different boon entire to believe in yourself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“But then I remember I’m not an infant. Hiding under a soft blanket for fear of the dark. Only a coward raises a fist to a child and calls it love. I name no one my Father who never loved me as a son. And I would scorn to lie meek upon the block and smile up at he who lifts the axe and tells me he has a fucking plan”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Never regret a single day. The worst give us lessons. The best gift us memories. But all of them are sacred. And this day is the most important of your life. Make it count.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“The Last Silversaint and Last Liathe are serpents, filled with the same rank venom. Their fondness for deceit is equalled only by their hatred for each other.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“My old 'prentice flashed a crooked smile, spoke in his soft Ossian brogue. "Ye look like shite twice stepped in, ye crusty bastard." "I'm thirthy-three, you little prick.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“It was the twenty-seventh year of daysdeath in the realm of the Forever King, and his murderer was still waiting to die.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“the only weapon in the war against yourself is yourself.”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Gabriel was recruited into the Silver Order of San Michon at fifteen years of age. He became a paragon of that holy brotherhood”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Nono”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“I just gave you forever”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“And made as you are in his image”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“And here I sit”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“Respect is earned”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“No sin is love. No sin can come of it”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“The fighting was frenzied”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn

“But looking to Phoebe at his side”
― Jay Kristoff, Empire of the Dawn