1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

He wanted to call her back. He wanted to follow her through the snow. But his country didn’t need a heartsick boy chasing after a lonely girl. It needed a king.

Greed is your god, Kaz.”He almost laughed at that. “No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”“And what god do you serve, then?”“Whichever will grant me good fortune.”“I don’t think gods work that way.”“I don’t think I care.

She did not tell herself she wasn’t afraid. Long ago, after a bad fall, her father had explained that only fools were fearless. We meet fear, he'd said. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.

She was terrifying in her beauty, bright like a devouring star.

Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.

He feared for his country and for himself. He’d be a fool not to. But some part of him, maybe the privateer, maybe the demon, maybe the prince who had clawed his way to the throne, was itching for a fight.

No prince is worth your life."Ayama supposed it depended on the prince.

There should be more magic. Not the creased-greasepaint performances of clowns and hack illusionists. Not card tricks. The magic he'd been promised would be found at the backs of wardrobes, under bridges, through mirrors. It was dangerous and alluring and it did not seek to entertain.

The world is changing,’ said Nikolai, the steel edge emerging in his voice. ‘We change with it, or there will be nothing left to remember us but the dust.’Vasily laughed. ‘I can’t decide if you’re a fearmonger or a coward.’‘And I can’t decide if you’re an idiot or an idiot.