Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I will have you without armor. Those were the words she’d said to Kaz aboard the Ferolind, desperate for some sign that he might open himself to her, that they could be more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world.”

— Leigh Bardugo

152. “No, Alina. You came here for Ravka. For the firebird. To lead the Second Army.” He tapped the sun over his heart. “I came here for you. You’re my flag. You’re my nation. But that doesn’t seem to matter anymore.”

— Leigh Bardugo

153. “Matthias suspected that Brekker would drag the girl back from hell himself if he had to. Jesper.”

— Leigh Bardugo

154. “Fear is a phoenix. Words Liliyana had spoken to her years ago and that Zoya had repeated to others many times. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”

— Leigh Bardugo

155. “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

156. “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

— Leigh Bardugo

157. “Kaz Brekker was gone, and Dirtyhands had come to see the rough work done.”

— Leigh Bardugo

158. “Like calls to like.”

— Leigh Bardugo

159. “A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he’ll keep to any deal you strike with him.”

— Leigh Bardugo

160. “Maybe I liked your stupid face.”

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161. “Did you tell him what I showed you in the dark?”

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162. “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

163. “The life you live, the hate you feel – it’s poison. I can drink it no longer.”

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164. “Jesper ran a finger up Wylan’s forearm, and Wylan flushed a vibrant pink. Matthias couldn’t help but sympathize with the boy. He knew what it was to be out of your depth, and he sometimes suspected they could forgo all of Kaz’s planning and simply let Jesper and Nina flirt the entirety of Ketterdam into submission.”

— Leigh Bardugo

165. “Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn’t want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.”

— Leigh Bardugo

166. “I love a little righteous comeuppance,” said Jesper. “Jogs the liver!”

— Leigh Bardugo

167. “He knew the look of a man defending his home with nothing but a rock in his hand.”

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168. “Besides, she was the Wraith – the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too.”

— Leigh Bardugo

169. “Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.”

— Leigh Bardugo

170. “You’ll get what’s coming to you some day, Brekker.” “I will,” said Kaz, “if there’s any justice in the world. And we all know how likely that is.”

— Leigh Bardugo

171. “He’d lied. He did like the way she talked.”

— Leigh Bardugo

172. “We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.”

— Leigh Bardugo

173. “Inej would find her own way in. The rules of fair play among the gangs were from Per Haskell’s time. Besides, she was the Wraith – the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too. The.”

— Leigh Bardugo

174. “Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”

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175. “What is infinite?” she recited. I knew that text well. “The universe and the greed of men,” I quoted back to her.”

— Leigh Bardugo

176. “He’d told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.”

— Leigh Bardugo

177. “Fear is a powerful ally, but feed it too often, make it too strong, and it will turn on you.”

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178. “Matthias was dreaming again. Dreaming of her.”

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179. “She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”

— Leigh Bardugo

180. “You wouldn’t know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth.”

— Leigh Bardugo

181. “The volcra, the nichevo’ya, they were my monsters, all of them. And he was my monster, too.”

— Leigh Bardugo

182. “You’ve cheated death many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”

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183. “But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he’d had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose.”

— Leigh Bardugo

184. “I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”

— Leigh Bardugo

185. “You have crumbs on your cleavage.” “Don’t care,” she said, taking another bite of cake. “So hungry.” Kaz.”

— Leigh Bardugo

186. “You are strong enough to survive the fall.”

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187. “He grinned at her, his smile sudden and jarring as a thunderclap, his eyes the near-black of bitter coffee. “We’ll be kings and queens, Inej. Kings and Queens.”

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188. “The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we’d shared, for the love I’d felt, for the hopeful girl I would never be again.”

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189. “I told you, I like your stupid face.”

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190. “Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache.”

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191. “Though he’d trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with his shame.”

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192. “Facts are for the unimaginative.”

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193. “Ravka was many things to him: a grand lady who required constant courting, a stubborn child unwilling to stand on its own, and most often, a drowning man – the more Nikolai struggled to save it, the harder it fought. But with the help of the scientists and soldiers at the Gilded Bog, he might just drag his country to shore yet.”

— Leigh Bardugo

194. “This was the kiss he’d been waiting for. It was a gunshot. It was prairie fire. It was the spin of Makker’s Wheel.”

— Leigh Bardugo

195. “She wished she had Inej’s gift for spywork or Kaz’s gift for scheming, but she only seemed to have Jesper’s gift for bad decisions.”

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196. “Kaz heaved a sigh as he braced himself for three painful flights of stairs. He looked over his shoulder and said, “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?” Inej.”

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197. “The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.”

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198. “Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”

— Leigh Bardugo

199. “I got used to seeing him waiting for me at the end of corridors, or sitting at the edge of my bed when I fell asleep at night. When he didn’t appear, I sometimes found myself looking for him or wondering why he hadn’t come, and that frightened me most of all.”

— Leigh Bardugo

200. “The first time I’d entered the Fold, I’d feared the darkness and my own death. Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift. I’d always known I would have to return to the Unsea, but as I looked back, I realized that some part of me had anticipated it.”

— Leigh Bardugo