Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic.”

— Leigh Bardugo

52. “There is no greater power than faith, and there will be no greater army than one driven by it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

53. “If Ketterdam has taught me anything, it’s that you can always bleed a little more.”

— Leigh Bardugo

54. “It’s not exciting if nothing can go wrong.”

— Leigh Bardugo

55. “The too-clever fox, finally caught.”

— Leigh Bardugo

56. “To live is to grieve.”

— Leigh Bardugo

57. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me. it’s just so easier to kill people than take care of them.”

— Leigh Bardugo

58. “Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.”

— Leigh Bardugo

59. “Just because you escape one trap, doesn’t mean you will escape the next.”

— Leigh Bardugo

60. “Only two things kept you safe: money and power.”

— Leigh Bardugo

61. “Don’t wish for bricks when you can build from stone.”

— Leigh Bardugo

62. “You dance differently when you know you won’t live forever.”

— Leigh Bardugo

63. “It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”

— Leigh Bardugo

64. “Two of the deadliest people the Barrel had to offer and they could barely touch each other without both of them keeling over.”

— Leigh Bardugo

65. “Know that I loved you, she said to the Darkling. Know that it was not enough.”

— Leigh Bardugo

66. “I’m going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I’m going to get my girl.”

— Leigh Bardugo

67. “I like it when men beg,” she said. “But this isn’t the time for it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

68. “I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”

— Leigh Bardugo

69. “Wylan Van Eck, you lied to Kaz Brekker.” Jesper clutched a hand to his chest. “And you got away with it! Do you give lessons?”

— Leigh Bardugo

70. “Brick by brick, I will destroy you.”

— Leigh Bardugo

71. “Not every flower belongs in every garden.”

— Leigh Bardugo

72. “I’m sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”

— Leigh Bardugo

73. “Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”

— Leigh Bardugo

74. “Kaz’s laugh was low and humorless. “Who’d deny a poor cripple his cane?” “If the cripple is you, then any man with sense.”

— Leigh Bardugo

75. “This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.”

— Leigh Bardugo

76. “Then the memory of the Darkling’s kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my thoughts like leaves and making my heart swoop and dive like a bird borne aloft by uncertain currents.”

— Leigh Bardugo

77. “You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand.”

— Leigh Bardugo

78. “The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.”

— Leigh Bardugo

79. “We were all supposed to make it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

80. “Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”

— Leigh Bardugo

81. “My Wraith would counsel mercy. But thanks to you, she’s not here to plead your case.”

— Leigh Bardugo

82. “He was afraid for you.” “Kaz isn’t afraid of anything.” “You should have seen his face when he brought you to me.” “I’m a very valuable investment.” Nina’s jaw dropped. “Tell me he didn’t say that.” “Of course he did. Well, not the valuable part.” “Idiot.” “How’s Matthias?” “Also an idiot. Do you think you can eat?” Inej.”

— Leigh Bardugo

83. “This is where you belong. This is where you were meant to bloom. Don’t roll your eyes, Galaxy. Not every flower belongs in every garden.”

— Leigh Bardugo

84. “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for ’good luck.”

— Leigh Bardugo

85. “He needed her and she needed him. That was how most disasters began.”

— Leigh Bardugo

86. “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”

— Leigh Bardugo

87. “And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.”

— Leigh Bardugo

88. “Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns.”

— Leigh Bardugo

89. “No matter the height of the mountain, the climbing is the same.”

— Leigh Bardugo

90. “Matthias knew monsters, and one glance at Kaz Brekker had told him this was a creature who had spent too long in the dark–he’d brought something back with him when he’d crawled into the light.”

— Leigh Bardugo

91. “The darkling gently folded me in his arms. He pressed a kiss to the top of my hair ‘I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.”

— Leigh Bardugo

92. “Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a uniform to do it?”

— Leigh Bardugo

93. “You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

94. “A secret’s not like coin. It doesn’t keep its value in the spending.”

— Leigh Bardugo

95. “But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. There were always excuses for why girls died.”

— Leigh Bardugo

96. “He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”

— Leigh Bardugo

97. “Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet.”

— Leigh Bardugo

98. “My mother was an oyster, And I’m the pearl.”

— Leigh Bardugo

99. “All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down.”

— Leigh Bardugo

100. “You certainly have a flare for the dire.”

— Leigh Bardugo