Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

“Shed shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone hed ever known. And if she was, then Grisha werent inheren...”

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

“Mal was quiet for a long moment. Then he said, Im not sure who my first kill was. We were hunting the stag when we ran into a Fjerdan patrol on the northern border. I dont think the fight lasted mo...”

“I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina," he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home.”

“i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.”

“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”

“Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. Theyd wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.”

“A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.”

“The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.”

“We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.”

“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.”

“and the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice.”

“Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't think-""Clearly. Why start now?”

“(...)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 ar...”

“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....”

“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 ...”

“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," sai...”