Leigh Bardugo Quotes

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

~ Leigh Bardugo

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.

~ Leigh Bardugo

and the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

~ Leigh Bardugo

At that moment, the creature's back breached the waves, its body cutting through the water in a sinuous arch, rainbows sparking off the iridescent scales on its back. Rusalye.

~ Leigh Bardugo

I don't think-Clearly. Why start now?

~ Leigh Bardugo

(...)And what did I want? (...)A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. (...) There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy's arms around me and WATCH THE WIND MOVE THE CLOUDS. (...)

~ Leigh Bardugo

I think... sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we are imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death.

~ Leigh Bardugo

She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible.

~ Leigh Bardugo

It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame.

~ Leigh Bardugo

You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered

~ Leigh Bardugo

And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed.

~ Leigh Bardugo

He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever after. So he'd found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was no broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.

~ Leigh Bardugo

He swept the red cloak around Inej's shoulders in a rain of petals and blossoms as she continued to strap on her knives. She looked almost as startled as the flower seller.What? he asked as he tossed her a Mister Crimson mask that matched his own.Those were my mother's favorite flower.Good to know Van Eck didn't cure you of sentiment.Nice to be back, Kaz.Good to have you back, Wraith.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Shall I tell you the secret of true love? her father once asked her. A friend of mine liked to tell me that women love flowers. He had many flirtations, but he never found a wife. Do you know why? Because women may love flowers, but only one woman loves the scent of gardenias in late summer that remind her of her grandmother’s porch. Only one woman loves apple blossoms in a blue cup. Only one woman loves wild geraniums.That’s Mama! Inej had cried.Yes, Mama loves wild geraniums because no other flower has quite the same color, and she claims that when she snaps the stem and puts a sprig behind her ear, the whole world smells like summer. Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.

~ Leigh Bardugo

When we get our money, you can burn kruge to keep you warm.I'm going to pay someone to burn my kruge for me.Why don't you pay someone else to pay someone to burn your kruge for you? That's what the big players do.

~ Leigh Bardugo

He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you.

~ Leigh Bardugo