Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We are all someone’s monster.”

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102. “The deal is the deal.”

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

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104. “Better terrible truths than kind lies.”

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

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

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

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108. “I would come for you,” he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. “I would 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

109. “You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”

— Leigh Bardugo

110. “One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder.”

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111. “When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”

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112. “The sun was out for once, and Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, her oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks. The harbor wind had lifted her dark hair, and for a moment Kaz was a boy again, sure that there was magic in this world.”

— Leigh Bardugo

113. “People are always looking for someone to blame for their suffering.”

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114. “Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart.”

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115. “Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion?”

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116. “She could feel the press of Kaz’s fingers against her skin, feel the bird’s wing brush of his mouth against her neck, see his dilated eyes. Two of the deadliest people the Barrel had to offer and they could barely touch each other without both of them keeling over. But they’d tried. He’d tried. Maybe they could try again. A foolish wish, the sentimental hope of a girl who hadn’t had the firsts of her life stolen, who hadn’t ever felt Tante Heleen’s lash, who wasn’t covered in wounds and wanted by the law. Kaz would have laughed at her optimism.”

— Leigh Bardugo

117. “We are not witches. We are practitioners of the Small Science. We keep this country and this kingdom safe.”

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118. “This action will have no echo.”

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119. “I’d learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see.”

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120. “She was welcoming and perfect in his arms. He kissed her, buried his face in the sweet hollow of her neck. Her curls brushed his cheeks, and he felt that if he could just hold her a little longer, every wound, every hurt, every bad thing would melt away.”

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121. “Peace was like any high. It couldn’t last. It was an illusion, something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever.”

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122. “There is no shame in meeting a worthy opponent. It means there is more to learn, a welcome reminder to pursue humility.”

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123. “There were always excuses for why girls died.”

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124. “We were all just children once.”

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125. “If you write, you’re a writer.”

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126. “Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn’t like the weather, you didn’t rush into the storm – you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet.”

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127. “Maybe all rich people asked the wrong questions. For people like Alex, it would never be what do you want. It was always just how much can you get?”

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128. “I’m pragmatic. If I were cruel, I’d give him an eulogy instead of a conversation.”

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129. “They tried to kill me, Hellie,” she rasped as she slid into the dark. That means I get to try to kill them.”

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130. “Every heart sounds different. I never realized that before.”

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131. “I’m the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.”

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132. “Take me back. Make me into someone who has never been done harm. Go as far as you can. Make me brand-new. No bruises. No scars.”

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133. “Kaz Brekker didn’t need a reason. Those were the words whispered on the streets of Ketterdam, in the taverns and coffeehouses, in the dark and bleeding alleys of the pleasure district known as the Barrel. The boy they called Dirtyhands didn’t need a reason any more than he needed permission – to break a leg, sever an alliance, or change a man’s fortunes with the turn of a card.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

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135. “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true... Be decisive, you have to know where you want to go before you get there.”

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136. “My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor. And my father is profit. I honor him daily.”

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137. “I’ll be certain you hear it when I make her scream.”

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138. “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”

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139. “She rested her head on his shoulder. “You’re better than waffles, Matthias Helvar.” A small smile curled the Fjerdan’s lips. “Let’s not say things we don’t mean, my love.”

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140. “There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.”

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141. “I am become a blade.”

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142. “Little red bird, let me go.”

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143. “He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn’t pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he’d begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”

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144. “The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him that you’re going to steal his watch.”

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145. “I don’t like that word,” Nina said, advancing. “Call me Grisha. Call me zowa. Call me death, if you like.”

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146. “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.”

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147. “Why do you never kiss me sweetly in the morning, Zoya?” “I do nothing sweetly, Your Highness.”

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148. “Understatement is overrated.”

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149. “A man without honor, said Matthias’ voice in her head. He should be ashamed. Nina snorted. If men were ashamed when they should be, they’d have no time for anything else.”

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150. “We’ll be Kings and Queens, Inej. Kings and Queens.”

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