1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor. And my father is profit. I honor him daily.

He was a collection of hard lines and tailored edges – sharp jaw, lean build, wool coat snug across his shoulders.

Her father would have said the shadows were about their own business tonight. Something bad was going to happen here.

He’d walked into this place buoyed on bravado, a survivor, a champion of the Barrel. He’d leave as another victim of Kaz Brekker.

Alex watched in the mirror as her history spilled over her skin. The scars she had chosen for herself. We are the shepherds. The time for that was done. Better to be a rattler. Better to be a jackal.

So many of my old friends, gathered in one place.

It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.

When Inej was on the high wire, it became her world. She could feel its tilt and pull. It was a planet and she was its moon. There was a simplicity to it that she never felt on the swings, where she was carried away by momentum. She loved the stillness she could find on the wire, and it was something no one else understood. She had fallen only once, and she.

To kill or to cure?” he said with a sad smile. “We each have our own gifts.