1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

Wait,” he said. The burn of his voice was rougher than usual. “Is my tie straight?”Inej laughed, her hood falling back from her hair.“That’s the laugh,” he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground.

Now smile for me, Hanne. Sometimes princes are cruel. It’s their prerogative.”Hanne’s fingers tensed on Nina’s arm, but she forced herself to smile and curtsy. “Of course, Your Highness.”I taught her that, Nina thought. I taught her to lie and feign compliance. I took a wild thing and showed her how to wear a leash.

Truth means something different when it's given freely.

You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.

Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving.

Human courage was different from Amazon bravery. She saw that now. For all the suspicion and derision she'd heard from her mother and her sisters about the mortal world, Diana couldn't help but admire the people with whom she traveled. Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving.

Wylan summoned every bit of bravado he'd learned from Nina, the will he'd learned from Matthias, the focus he'd studied in Kaz, the courage he'd learned from Inej, and the wild, reckless hope he'd learned from Jesper, the belief that no matter the odds, somehow they would win.

Would it kill him to smile every once in a while?” Jesper asked.“Very possibly.

What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.