Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

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

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

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 j...”

“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 ...”

“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.”

“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 v...”

“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.”

“Id learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.”

“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.”

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

“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 Arou...”

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

“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 starsa glittering, tangled mass...”

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

“Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind.”

“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”