1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo
"But as you leave that dark gap in the trees behind, remember that to use a thing is not to own it and should you ever take a bride, listen closely to her questions. In them you may hear her true name like the thunder of a lost river, like the sighing of the sea."
"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 at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are,” she whispered.He shrugged. “They all seem like practical choices."
"What did you say to Van Eck on the bridge?” Kaz asked at last. “When we were making the trade?”“You will see me once more, but only once.”“More Suli proverbs?”“A promise to myself. And Van Eck.”“Careful, Wraith. You’re ill-suited to the revenge game. I’m not sure your Suli Saints would approve.”“My Saints don’t like bullies."
"Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same."
"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 Zoya.There was a brief, terrible silence, then Adrik scowled and said, 'Okay, stab him."
"Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return."
"We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen."
"They fear you as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina."
"Ulla could forgive betrayal, another abandonment, even her own death. But not this moment, when after all her sacrifice, she begged for mercy and Signy sought a prince's permission to grant it."