1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.

You are strong enough to survive the fall

THE SERVANTS CALLED them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches.

Matthias joined them at the table. “The Shu woman we faced was stronger than me, Jesper, and Wylan put together.”“You heard right,” said Jesper. “Stronger than Wylan.

He had been strong for his country, his soldiers, his friends. It meant something different to be strong for her.

How long have you known about Big Bolliger?”“Weeks. We’re going to be short-staffed. That reminds me, let Rojakke go.”“Why? There’s no one like him at the tables.”“Lots of sobs know their way around a deck of cards. Rojakke is a little too quick. He’s skimming.”“He’s a good dealer, and he has a family to provide for. You could give him a warning, take a finger.”“Then he wouldn’t be a good dealer any more, would he?

Even now, a boy will smile at me on the street, or Jesper will put his arm around my waist, and I feel like I’m going to vanish. I live in fear that I’ll see one of her—one of my—clients on the street. For a long time, I thought I recognized them everywhere. But sometimes I think what they did to me wasn’t the worst of it.

The world seemed suddenly large again. I wasn't sure I liked it.

Jer molle pe poner. Enel mordió je nej afval trohem verretn."I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.