Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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, carryin...”

“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.”

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

“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 lone...”

“There is no pain like the pain of transformation.”

“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.”

“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 a...”

“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 drop...”

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

“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...”

“He doesnt need a donkey, says Ana Kuya. He has a wife.”

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

“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.”

“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 ...”