Quotes by Leigh Bardugo

I don’t want to wear this anymore, I pleaded. It’s a servant’s uniform. It’s a soilder’s uniform.

I think strong men show strength, but great men show strength tempered by compassion

He was stronger than this sickness, stronger than the pull of the water.

Our first job is always to survive. I won't apologize for it.

Maybe the gift of being human is that we do not give up- even when all hope is lost.

But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.

A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.

I will always seek to make it summer for you.

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.

They would build a new world together. But first they had to burn the old one down.

She had not been much to look at in her youth, and she knew well that only courage is required for an adventure.

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

Close your eyes!""You can't kiss me from down there, Wylan.""Just do it!

I told you, I like your stupid face.

Idiot.”“That fact is well established and adds nothing to the plot.

Mal snickered."What's so funny?""I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

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.

I'm nothing like you," said the boy, his blue eyes blazing. Matthias saw the anger there, the rage. He knew it so well. But he was still surprised when he heard the shot.

Matthias was dreaming again... Dreaming of her.

We all die," he said as he jogged off to retrieve his kill. "Not everyone dies for a reason.

His greatest vulnerability had been right beside him. And now she was gone.

I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title

It's the people who never learn the wordimpossiblewho make history, because they're the ones who keep trying.

Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

He was going tobreak my legs,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “Would you have come for me then, Kaz? When I couldn’t scale a wall or walk a tightrope? When I wasn’t the Wraith anymore?”Dirtyhands would not. The boy who could

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.

I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.

I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.

It's not natural for women to fight.""It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.