Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “But no matter who or what I was, I would have been yours.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

103. “Better terrible truths than kind lies.”

— Leigh Bardugo

104. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

107. “The deal is the deal.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

113. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

117. “We were all just children once.”

— Leigh Bardugo

118. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

120. “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?”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

124. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

125. “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

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

— Leigh Bardugo

127. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

131. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

132. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

133. “Little red bird, let me go.”

— Leigh Bardugo

134. “I am become a blade.”

— Leigh Bardugo

135. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

137. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

141. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

142. “Understatement is overrated.”

— Leigh Bardugo

143. “Matthias was dreaming again. Dreaming of her. The storm raged around him, drowning out Nina’s voice. And yet his heart was easy. Somehow he knew that she would be safe, she would find shelter from the cold. He was on the ice once more, and somewhere he could hear the wolves howling. But this time, he knew they were welcoming him home.”

— Leigh Bardugo

144. “No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”

— Leigh Bardugo

145. “They were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides, to find each other and lose each other too quickly. She would not keep him here. Not like this.”

— Leigh Bardugo

146. “You’re very welcome, Nina Zenik. You may repay me in the customary way.” “Waffles?” “Lots of them.”

— Leigh Bardugo

147. “Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It came after the shipwreck, when the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant shore.”

— Leigh Bardugo

148. “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”

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149. “Nina, little red bird. Don’t go.”

— Leigh Bardugo

150. “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