Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “I told you, I like your stupid face.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

204. “None of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost.”

— Leigh Bardugo

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

— Leigh Bardugo

206. “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.”

— Leigh Bardugo

207. “Mejor verdades terribles que mentiras amables.”

— Leigh Bardugo

208. “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

209. “Ketterdam is made of monsters. I just happen to have the longest teeth.”

— Leigh Bardugo

210. “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

211. “Shame holds more value than coin ever can.”

— Leigh Bardugo

212. “Wylan,” Jesper said, giving him a little shake. “Maybe your tutors didn’t cover this lesson, but you do not argue with a man covered in blood and a knife up his sleeve.”

— Leigh Bardugo

213. “Alina Starkov was our age when she was martyred. She was just a girl, and she sacrificed herself to save Ravka and destroy the Shadow Fold.”

— Leigh Bardugo

214. “Inej had once offered to teach him how to fall. “The trick is not getting knocked down,” he’d told her with a laugh. “No, Kaz,” she’d said, “the trick is in getting back up.”

— Leigh Bardugo

215. “We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”

— Leigh Bardugo

216. “The storm had come out of nowhere, tossing the ship like a toy on the waves. The sea had played along until it had tired of the game, and dragged their boat under in a tangle of rope and sail and screaming men.”

— Leigh Bardugo

217. “Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”

— Leigh Bardugo

218. “I would come for you and if I couldn’t walk I would crawl to you.”

— Leigh Bardugo

219. “Her father would have said the shadows were about their own business tonight. Something bad was going to happen here.”

— Leigh Bardugo

220. “If I want to watch men dig holes to fall into, I’ll find myself a cemetery.”

— Leigh Bardugo

221. “Morozova’s stag. Rusalye. The firebird. Legends come to life before my eyes, just to die in front of me.”

— Leigh Bardugo

222. “Progress is a river. It cannot be called back once it leaps its banks.”

— Leigh Bardugo

223. “We were all supposed to make it,” said Wylan softly.”

— Leigh Bardugo

224. “In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”

— Leigh Bardugo

225. “Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.”

— Leigh Bardugo

226. “She wouldn’t wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn’t be rid of.”

— Leigh Bardugo

227. “Quien no sabe de mar no sabe de mal!”

— Leigh Bardugo

228. “There are no others like us, Alina,” he whispered. “And there never will be.”

— Leigh Bardugo

229. “I didn’t think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and maybe that was enough.”

— Leigh Bardugo

230. “Most of us can hide our greatest hurts and longings. It’s how we survive each day. We pretend the pain isn’t there, that we are made of scars instead of wounds.”

— Leigh Bardugo

231. “Do you blame me for every mistake I made? For every girl I tumbled? For every dumb thing I’ve said? Because if we start running tallies on stupid, you know who’s going to come out ahead.”

— Leigh Bardugo

232. “For now they were safe. But despite the rattle of the wagon’s wheels, Inej could tell Kaz’s breathing had gotten worse – shallow, rapid pants like an animal caught in a trap. It was a sound she’d never thought to hear from him. It was because she was listening so closely that she knew the exact moment when Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, the bastard of the Barrel and the deadliest boy in Ketterdam, fainted.”

— Leigh Bardugo

233. “A moment later the boy whispered, “I don’t think you’re ugly.” “Shhhh!” the girl hissed. But hidden by the deep shadows of the cupboard, she smiled.”

— Leigh Bardugo

234. “Welcome to the Ice Court, Nina Zenik. Now our debt is paid.” From somewhere outside, the bells of Black Protocol began to ring.”

— Leigh Bardugo

235. “She was Inej Ghafa, and she would not quiver like a rabbit in a snare.”

— Leigh Bardugo

236. “When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”

— Leigh Bardugo

237. “Just trust me, Nina.” “I wouldn’t trust you to tie my shoes without stealing the laces, Kaz.”

— Leigh Bardugo

238. “I am done being careful. I am done being quiet. Let them see me angry. Let them hear me wail at the top of my lungs.”

— Leigh Bardugo

239. “No, little brother. No one is stronger. You’ve cheated death too many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”

— Leigh Bardugo

240. “Farvell,” she said in Fjerdan. “May Djel watch over you until I can once more.”

— Leigh Bardugo

241. “We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.”

— Leigh Bardugo

242. “Nikolai set to opening the Schuyler combination locks he’d learned about from a certain master thief in Ketterdam.”

— Leigh Bardugo

243. “Not bad looking? He’s damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer, oh, and an even better shot.”

— Leigh Bardugo

244. “Why had he called Jesper by Jordie’s name? When he looked into the past, he saw his brother through the eyes of the boy he’d been: brave, brilliant, infallible, a knight bested by a dragon dressed like a merch. But how would he see Jordie now? As a mark? Another dumb pigeon looking for a shortcut? He leaned his hands on the edge of the sink. He wasn’t angry anymore. He just felt weary.”

— Leigh Bardugo

245. “Do not be afraid. Fear is how they control you. There’s so much in the world you don’t have to be afraid of, if you would only open your eyes.”

— Leigh Bardugo

246. “Why does the brave druskelle Matthias Helvar eat no meat? ‘Tis a sad story indeed, my child. His teeth were winnowed away by a vexatious Grisha, and now he can eat only pudding.”

— Leigh Bardugo

247. “My only comfort is that you never could have been mine. But know that I would have gladly been yours.”

— Leigh Bardugo

248. “Don’t worry, Da. People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It’s basically a handshake.”

— Leigh Bardugo

249. “He turned to me then, his expression serious, the firelight playing over the perfect planes of his features. “I’ve spent my life searching for a way to make things right. You’re the first glimmer of hope I’ve had in a long time.”

— Leigh Bardugo

250. “No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He’d become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel. The.”

— Leigh Bardugo