Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

53. “The deal is the deal.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

57. “To live is to grieve.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

59. “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit. Everything changes, nothing perishes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

66. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

68. “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

69. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

73. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

75. “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

76. “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

77. “You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

80. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

90. “We are all someone’s monster.”

— Leigh Bardugo

91. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

95. “But no matter who or what I was, I would have been yours.”

— Leigh Bardugo

96. “Do that thing you do where you use too many words to say something simple and confuse the issue.”

— Leigh Bardugo

97. “But if you couldn’t open a door, you just had to make a new one.”

— Leigh Bardugo

98. “We cannot spend our lives in hiding, wondering what we might accomplish if given the chance. We have to take that chance ourselves.”

— Leigh Bardugo

99. “Better terrible truths than kind lies.”

— Leigh Bardugo

100. “I am a daughter of Lethe, and the wolves are at the door.”

— Leigh Bardugo