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Leigh Bardugo quotes
I don’t care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
I have loved you all my life, Mal, ” I whispered through my tears. “There is no end to our story.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
What is she to you anyway?””Here’s my answer captain. She’s the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don’t matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you’re just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn’t ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She’s everything, you dumb son of a bitch.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?””Guns?” asked Jesper.”Ships?” queried Inej.”Bombs?” suggested Wylan. “Political bribes?” offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are, ” she whispered.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Do you answer a question directly?””Hard to say. Ah, there, I’ve done it again
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
Greed is your god, Kaz.”He almost laughed at that. “No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
You have your own problems right now, Zenik, said a voice in her head. Stop worrying about saving the world and save your own ass. Sometimes her inner voice could be very wise.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I’ll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want.””I don’t need any of that. Just…” He dropped Nikolai’s hand and looked away. “Deserve her.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Wylan summoned every bit of bravado he’d learned from Nina, the will he’d learned from Matthias, the focus he’d studied in Kaz, the courage he’d learned from Inej, and the wild, reckless hope he’d learned from Jesper, the belief that no matter the odds, somehow they would win.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it’s the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death.
— Leigh Bardugo
There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?”I shook my head, inching away from him.“Faith, ” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
And what god do you serve, then?”“Whichever will grant me good fortune.” “I don’t think gods work that way.” “I don’t think I care.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Waiting was the part of the criminal life so many people got wrong. They wanted to act instead of hold fast and gather information. They wanted to know instantly without having to learn. Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn’t like the weather, you didn’t rush into the storm – you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost, ” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
You’re very welcome, ” she said, giving my hair a hard tug. “You should be used to being gawked at by now.””And yet I’m not.””Well, if it gets too bad, give me a signal, and I’ll get up on the banquet table, toss my skirt over my head, and do a little dance. That way no one will be looking at you.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
Mal snickered. “What’s so funny?””I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
You just punched a prince, Alina. I guess we can add one more act of treason to our list.”I shook out my sore hand. My knuckles smarted. “First of all, are we so sure he really is a prince? And second, you’re just jealo
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
I may not have been completely honest about that.””You? Less than truthful? I’m shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
I shouldn’t have lost my temper that way. It just pricks his pride, makes him dig in his heels.””So why did you?” I asked, genuinely curious. It was rare for Nikolai’s emotions to get the best of him. “I don’t know, ” he said, shredding the leaf. “You got angry. I got angry. The room was too damn hot.””I don’t think that’s it.””Indigestion?” he offered.”It’s because you actually care about what happens to this country, ” I said. “The throne is just a prize to Vasily, something he wants to squabble over like a favorite toy, You’re not like that. You’ll make a good king.”Nikolai froze. “I…” For once, words seemed to have deserted him. Then a crooked, embarrassed smile crept across his face. It was a far cry from his usual self-assured grin. “Thank you, ” he said.I sighed as we resumed our pace. “You’re going to be insufferable now, aren’t you?”Nikolai laughed. “I’m already insufferable.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
If it works, it will be plenty dramatic. And I suppose that if it doesn’t work, it will be even more dramatic, what with the blast.””David, I think you just made a joke.”He frowned, utterly perplexed. “Did I?
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
It’s always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It’s why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel.”My heart gave a little pang at that. I’d been called plenty of names growing up.”I like mongrels, ” I said. “They have cute floppy ears.””My ears are very dignified.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
I’ll get them out and come back. I promise.””On your word as a cutthroat and a pirate?”He touched my cheek once, briefly. “Privateer.”Another explosion rocked the grounds.”Let’s go!” shouted Mal.As we sprinted into the tunnel, I glanced back and saw Nikolai silhouetted against the purple twilight. I wondered if I’d ever see him again.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
Close your eyes!””You can’t kiss me from down there, Wylan.” “Just do it!
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?”I’m already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship.”i think so.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.
— Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”Kaz: “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”Matthias: “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Inej placed her hands on Nina’s shoulders. “We’ll see each other again.”“Of course we will. You’ve saved my life. I’ve saved yours.”“I think you’re ahead on that count.”“No, I don’t mean in the big ways.” Nina’s eyes took them all in. “I mean the little rescues. Laughing at my jokes. Forgiving me when I was foolish. Never trying to make me feel small. It doesn’t matter if it’s next month, or next year, or ten years from now, those will be the things I remember when I see you again.”Kaz offered his gloved hand to Nina. “Until then, Zenik.”“Count on it, Brekker.” They shook.
— Leigh Bardugo
Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She’d fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
I was done with hesitation. It wasn’t just that we’d run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird’s power. I’d simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creature’s life. But I missed the girl who had shown the stag mercy, who had been strong enough to turn away from the lure of power, who had believed in something more. Another casualty of this war.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morning. There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy’s arms around me and watch the wind move the clouds.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Nina was about to snap that she didn’t appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Kaz reached into his coat pocket. “Here, ” he said and handed Jesper a slender book with an elaborate cover.”Are we going to read to each other?””Just flip it open to the back.”Jesper opened the book and peered at the last page, puzzled. “So?””Hold it up so we don’t have to look at your ugly face.””My face has character. Besides – oh!””An excellent read, isn’t it?””Who knew I had a taste for literature?
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman.
— Leigh Bardugo, Folktales from Ravka: Little Knife, The Too-Clever Fox, The Witch of Duva
She tilted her head back, breathing deeply. It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. A hard wind filled the sails, carrying the little boat over the waves. ‘It feels good to be this kind of cold, ‘ she murmured. ‘This kind?”Wind in your hair, sea spray on your skin. The cold of the living.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
There is no pain like the pain of transformation.
— Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
I just know there’s no way to live without pain – no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
I’ve always known that whatever marriage I made would be political. It would be about power, not love. But we might get lucky. In time, we might have both.”Or the third amplifier will turn me into a power-mad dictator and you’ll have to kill me.”Yes, that would make for an awkward honeymoon.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
He doesn’t need a donkey, ” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
If you don’t care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.””Kruge? Scrub? Kaz’s one true love?””Freedom, security, retribution.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
He looked down at his boots. “That berth belongs to you too. It will always be there when―if you want to come back.”Inej could not speak. Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain. “I don’t know what to say.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Where are you going?” she called after me, her voice mocking. “What’s waiting for you out there?” “Nothing!” I shouted at her. “No one!
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
I thought the love I’d had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I’d tried to bury that girl and the love she’d felt, just as I’d tried to bury my power. But I wouldn’t make that mistake again.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
Van Eck raised a brow. “How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Human courage was different from Amazon bravery. She saw that now. For all the suspicion and derision she’d heard from her mother and her sisters about the mortal world, Diana couldn’t help but admire the people with whom she traveled. Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving.
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
I was just a girl again, but this girl didn’t owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I’d been born with my power; the rest I’d earned.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled – not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.
— Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.”“I will.”“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
You don’t ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she’d kept from raising her hand because she didn’t want to seem too smart or too eager?
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what’s in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.
— Leigh Bardugo
Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn’t want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
I’d learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it’s good.
— Leigh Bardugo
You cannot make this kind of decision, ” he said. “Go off with someone you barely know. You’re seventeen.””And you’re the guy who got drunk on eggnog last Christmas and danced to ‘Turn The Beat Around’ in Aunt Rachel’s wig, so stop acting like you’re in charge.””We agreed not to mention that ever again, ” Jason whispered furiously.
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.
— Leigh Bardugo, The Tailor
Of course I’m jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn’t the point.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
She’d shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he’d ever known. And if she was, then Grisha weren’t inherently evil. They were like anyone else—full of the potential to do great good, and also great harm. To ignore that would make Matthias the monster.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
They fear as I once feared you, ” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
The person she liked best didn’t like her enough to want more of her, and she didn’t want to pretend that wasn’t awful.
— Leigh Bardugo, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
She’d hurt him, but she’d attempted everything in her power to make things right. She’d shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he’d ever known.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. “If we make it out of here alive, I’m going to kiss you unconscious.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
She rested her head on his shoulder. “You’re better than waffles, Matthias Helvar.” A small smile curled the Fjerdan’s lips. “Let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
I promise, Matthias. I’ll take you home.””Nina, ” he said, pressing her hand to his heart. “I am already home.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
I tilted my head back, breathing deeply. It was a clear, moonless night, and after those long months underground, the sight of all that sky was dizzying. And so many stars—a glittering, tangled mass that seemed close enough to touch. I let their light fall over me like a balm, grateful for the air in my lungs, the night all around me.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Survival wasn’t nearly as hard as he’d thought once he left decency behind.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Mal was quiet for a long moment. Then he said, “I’m not sure who my first kill was. We were hunting the stag when we ran into a Fjerdan patrol on the northern border. I don’t think the fight lasted more than a few minutes, but I killed three men. They were doing a job, same as I was, trying to get through one day to the next, then they were bleeding in the snow. No way to tell who was the first to fall, and I’m not sure it matters. You keep them at a distance. The faces start to blur.”“Really?”“No.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Abruptly, Adrik snarled, ‘I’m glad Sergei’s dead. I’m just sorry I didn’t get to wring his neck myself.”You’d need two hands for that, ‘ said
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.
— Leigh Bardugo
What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
and the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone
At that moment, the creature’s back breached the waves, its body cutting through the water in a sinuous arch, rainbows sparking off the iridescent scales on its back. Rusalye.
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
I miss a good cup of tea, dancing, boys- definitely not rain.””We dance, ” Diana protested.Maeve had just laughed. “You dance differently when you know you won’t live forever.
— Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer
I don’t think-“”Clearly. Why start now?
— Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm
(…)And what did I want? (…)A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. (…) There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy’s arms around me and WATCH THE WIND MOVE THE CLOUDS. (…)
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
I think… sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we are imagining it. Because it’s the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death.
— Leigh Bardugo
I rolled my eyes. “For defending my honor, you dullard.”He yanked me beneath a shadowed awning. I had a moment’s panic when I thought he’d spotted trouble, but then his arms were around me and his lips were pressed to mine.When he finally drew back, my cheeks were warm and my legs had gone wobbly.”Just to be clear, ” he said, “I’m not really interested in defending your honor.””Understood, ” I managed, hoping I didn’t sound too ridiculously breathless.
— Leigh Bardugo
That first winter, when it was time for her friends to leave, the girl ventured out into the show to say goodbye, and the stunning raven-haired Squaller handed her another gift. “A blue kefta, ” said the math teacher, shaking her head. “What would she do with
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn’t change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed.
— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
He’d broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn’t set right, and he’d limped ever after. So he’d found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was no broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
He swept the red cloak around Inej’s shoulders in a rain of petals and blossoms as she continued to strap on her knives. She looked almost as startled as the flower seller.”What?” he asked as he tossed her a Mister Crimson mask that matched his own.”Those were my mother’s favorite flower.””Good to know Van Eck didn’t cure you of sentiment.””Nice to be back, Kaz.””Good to have you back, Wraith.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
Shall I tell you the secret of true love? her father once asked her. A friend of mine liked to tell me that women love flowers. He had many flirtations, but he never found a wife. Do you know why? Because women may love flowers, but only one woman loves the scent of gardenias in late summer that remind her of her grandmother’s porch. Only one woman loves apple blossoms in a blue cup. Only one woman loves wild geraniums.That’s Mama! Inej had cried.Yes, Mama loves wild geraniums because no other flower has quite the same color, and she claims that when she snaps the stem and puts a sprig behind her ear, the whole world smells like summer. Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
When we get our money, you can burn kruge to keep you warm.””I’m going to pay someone to burn my kruge for me.””Why don’t you pay someone else to pay someone to burn your kruge for you? That’s what the big players do.
— Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you.
— Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone