Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”

— Leigh Bardugo

2. “When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”

— Leigh Bardugo

3. “You and I are going to change the world.”

— Leigh Bardugo

4. “What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”

— Leigh Bardugo

5. “The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”

— Leigh Bardugo

6. “What doesn’t kill me better run. – Kaz.”

— Leigh Bardugo

7. “I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”

— Leigh Bardugo

8. “Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you’re human, but never when you feel it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

9. “Don’t argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.”

— Leigh Bardugo

10. “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

11. “I’m perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.”

— Leigh Bardugo

12. “I hope you weren’t looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.”

— Leigh Bardugo

13. “When you can’t beat the odds, change the game.”

— Leigh Bardugo

14. “Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”

— Leigh Bardugo

15. “Scars made good reminders.”

— Leigh Bardugo

16. “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”

— Leigh Bardugo

17. “She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”

— Leigh Bardugo

18. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

19. “The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?”

— Leigh Bardugo

20. “Na razrusha’ya. E’ya razrushost.” I am not ruined. I am ruination.”

— Leigh Bardugo

21. “The monster is me and I am the monster.”

— Leigh Bardugo

22. “Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.”

— Leigh Bardugo

23. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

24. “They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.”

— Leigh Bardugo

25. “And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”

— Leigh Bardugo

26. “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”

— Leigh Bardugo

27. “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”

— Leigh Bardugo

28. “Kaz Brekker didn’t need a reason.”

— Leigh Bardugo

29. “Stop treating your pain like it’s something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, then you can heal it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

30. “You can’t live in fear. You make things happen or they happen to you.”

— Leigh Bardugo

31. “You know the problem with heroes and saints... They always end up dead.”

— Leigh Bardugo

32. “Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him.”

— Leigh Bardugo

33. “No mourners, no funerals.”

— Leigh Bardugo

34. “You were meant for more than me, and I’ll die fighting to give it to you. But please don’t ask me to pretend it’s easy.”

— Leigh Bardugo

35. “I hope you don’t expect fairness from me, Alina. It isn’t one of my specialties.”

— Leigh Bardugo

36. “There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

37. “Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.”

— Leigh Bardugo

38. “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”

— Leigh Bardugo

39. “A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.”

— Leigh Bardugo

40. “In the end, he was not Nina or Matthias or Kaz or Inej or Jesper. He was just Wylan Van Eck. He told them everything.”

— Leigh Bardugo

41. “I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”

— Leigh Bardugo

42. “I feel you slipping away from me, and I don’t know how to stop it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

43. “Zoya of the lost city. Zoya of the garden. Zoya bleeding in the snow. You are strong enough to survive the fall.”

— Leigh Bardugo

44. “The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”

— Leigh Bardugo

45. “Always hit where the mark isn’t looking.”

— Leigh Bardugo

46. “When they took everything from you, you found a way to make something from nothing.”

— Leigh Bardugo

47. “There is no end to our story.”

— Leigh Bardugo

48. “You couldn’t train a falcon, then expect it not to hunt.”

— Leigh Bardugo

49. “I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo