Leigh Bardugo Quotes

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

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.

Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)

Close your eyes!""You can't kiss me from down there, Wylan." "Just do it!

I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

Mal snickered. "What's so funny?""I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.

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.

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.

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.

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.

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

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

They fear as I once feared you, ” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina

Of course I'm jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn't the point.

Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

I’d learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.

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.

I have loved you all my life, Mal, " I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.

Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.

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.

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!

Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain.

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.

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.

He doesn’t need a donkey, ” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.

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.

There is no pain like the pain of transformation.