1,728 Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.

Say something spiteful.”“Why?” she asked faintly.“Because I’m fairly certain I'm hallucinating and in my dreams you're much nicer.”“You're an idiot, Nikolai.

Her time is better spent with me. The thorn wood is a path you walk alone, boy king.”“But it’s a very arduous path,” Nikolai said. “Who will carry my snacks?

You will be ensuring slavery and death for Grisha everywhere,” Inej said.Van Eck raised a brow. “How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.”“When profit shifts,” Jesper shot back.Van Eck’s expression was bemused. “Aren’t they one and the same?

I am a woman alone in a powerful man’s house. I have no true allies. I will do what I must to survive.”Joran looked almost startled. “You did not want to be his whore?”The word made Nina bristle. “Is that so hard to believe?”“Commander Brum … he would never. He would not force—”“He has no need to resort to force. He prefers a different kind of submission.

This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.

You've cheated death many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.

You mistake me Alexandra. There is no crime in wanting these things. Only people who have never lived without comfort deride it as bourgeois.“ She winked. “The purest Marxists are always men. Calamity comes too easily to women. Our lives can come apart in a single gesture, a rogue wave. And money? Money is the rock we cling to when the current would seize us.

Wylan drew himself up. “I may not have had your … education, but I’m sure I know plenty of words that you don’t.”“Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.”“No one dances the minuet any more,” grumbled Wylan.