1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

You were meant for more than me, and I’ll die fighting to give it to you. But please don’t ask me to pretend it’s easy.

That sound – the swift, shocking report of gunfire – called the scattered, irascible, permanently seeking part of his mind into focus like nothing else.

I hope you don’t expect fairness from me, Alina. It isn’t one of my specialties.

If your god is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one.

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

Beware of power. There is no amount of it that can make them love you.

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.

For my country,” she said. “For my people. For every child you put to the pyre. Reap what you’ve sown, Jarl Brum.

She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.