1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

A lie isn’t a lie until someone believes it. It doesn’t matter how charming you are if there’s no one to charm.

I’d prefer a pair of sable-lined swimming trunks. But we can’t always get what we want.

Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show.

There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us.

I’m going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I’m going to get my girl.

And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.

He didn’t know how precious a normal life could be, how easy it was to drift away from average. You started sleeping until noon, skipped one class, one day of school, lost one job, then another, forgot the way that normal people did things. You lost the language of ordinary life. And then, without meaning to, you crossed into a country from which you couldn’t return. You lived in a state where the ground always seemed to be slipping from beneath your feet, with no way back to someplace solid.

Fear is a phoenix. Words Liliyana had spoken to her years ago and that Zoya had repeated to others many times. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

Why do you never kiss me sweetly in the morning, Zoya?” “I do nothing sweetly, Your Highness.