1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

I would murder the only person I'd ever loved and who had ever loved me. I'd dive back into battle wearing his bones. •chapter 15, page 338

I knew what it would leave behind when the pain was gone: loneliness, nothingness, a deep fissure that would not mend, the desperate edge of the abyss I had once glimpsed in the Darkling's eyes. •chapter 20, page 367

The shadows felt like a pushiment, ghosts of greater power that served only to taunt me, the Saint of shams and mirrors. •chapter 1, page 14

I called and the light answered with the strength of the antlers at my throat, the scales at my wrist. It came to me in a rush, triumphant and eager. •chapter 2, page 43

I was impressed, but also unnerved. Being around Nikolai was always like this, watching him shift and change, revealing secrets as he went. •chapter 6, page 139

But we're they happy? Would they stay that way? Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. •chapter 10, page 234

Maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. •chapter 10, page 234

My hut. My fire. That sounds a pleasant thing she said. But I find the dark is the same wherever I am. •chapter 11, page 246

Nikolai swooped back down, barreling into another of the Darkling's nichevo'ya. I could almost imagine his laugh. 'Well, if I'm going to be a monster, I might as well be king of the monsters.' •chapter 17, page 372