1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

I told you, I like your stupid face.

My ghosts won't associate with your ghosts - Matthias Helvar

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.

Do you read novels?""I read when I have time.""So, no.""I read when I can't sleep.""So, regularly then.

We're not helpless. Novels are full of ragtag bands facing impossible odds.

Why don't Fjerdans let girls fight?""They don't want to fight.""How do you know? Have you ever asked one?""Fjerdan women are to be venerated, protected.""That's probably a wise policy.""It is?""Think how embarrassing it would be for you when you got trounced by a Fjerdan girl.

The problem with wanting, is that it makes us weak.

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.

You have no finesse,” a gambler at the Silver Garter once said to him. “No technique.”“Sure I do,” Kaz had responded. “I practice the art of ‘pull his shirt over his head and punch till you see blood.