1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you’re human, but never when you feel it.

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.

Wylan’s legs gave out and he sat down hard, right there in the middle of the road, and he couldn’t bring himself to care because the tears were coming and there was no way he could stop them. They gusted through his chest in ragged, ugly sobs. He hated that Jesper was seeing him cry, but there was nothing he could do, not about the tears, not about any of it. He buried his face in his arms, covering his head as if, were he to only will it strongly enough, he could vanish.

Kaz shrugged, unwilling to give her an answer. Inej was always trying to wring little bits of decency from him. “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.

Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.

When they backed you in a corner, you cut a hole in the roof.

Don’t argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

But if you loved a thing, the work was never done.

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.