79 Quotes About The-darkling

  • Author Leigh Bardugo
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    What's your favorite color?" asked Sylvi."I don't have one.""How can you not have one?"Deep blue like the True Sea. Red like the roofs of the Shu temples. The pure, buttery color of sunlight—not really yellow or gold, what would you call it? All the colors you couldn't see in the dark.

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  • Author Leigh Bardugo
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    Beside Ruby, the Darkling lay in his black kefta. Who had tended him? I wondered, feeling an ache rise in my throat. Who had combed his dark hair back so neatly from his forehead? Who had folded his graceful hands on his chest?

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  • Author Leigh Bardugo
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    Aleksander's body shook as he fought to keep his sanity. That deafening, maddening vibration traveling through his skull. His threads of shadow wrapped around the demon's body, giving strength to its limbs, banding together and binding to its form.The creature shrieked. Aleksander felt the demon's mind. Nikolai's mind. The monster is me...The ghost of a thought.

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  • Author Leigh Bardugo
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    Perhaps the Darkling would bring down a landslide and bury them all beneath a pile of rock or abandon them in a labyrinth of caves. The options were endless. The man had a limitless supply of unpleasant surprises.

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