Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “The really bad monsters never look like monsters.”

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252. “Kaz had been impressed with the sketches. “You think like a lockpick,” he’d told Wylan. “I do not.” “I mean you can see space along three axes.” “I’m not a criminal,” Wylan protested. Kaz had cast him an almost pitying look. “No, you’re a flautist who fell in with bad company.”

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253. “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.”

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254. “Six people, but a thousand ways this insane plan could go wrong.”

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255. “What you want and what the world needs are not always in accord.”

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

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257. “I trade in information, Geels, the things men do when they think no one is looking. Shame holds more value than coin ever can.”

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258. “What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.”

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259. “Does the bird feel the weight of its wings?”

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260. “When they backed you in a corner, you cut a hole in the roof.”

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261. “If you were going to hell together, murder seemed like a good place to start.”

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262. “Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”

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263. “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.”

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264. “I like to bet on myself whenever I can. But usually with other people’s money.”

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265. “Someone to mourn me... No grave... for them to desecrate.”

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266. “And if there was another reason, a tall, lanky reason with a too-strong taste for games of chance, he wasn’t going to think about that right now.”

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267. “Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. ” Princes bleed just like other men.”

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268. “The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like.”

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269. “It was stupid. It was dangerous. But Ana Kuya used to tell me that hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”

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270. “She rested her head on his shoulder. “You’re better than waffles, Matthias Helvar.” A.”

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271. “Chaos will come and I will be its master.”

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272. “I had spared the stag’s life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.”

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273. “Let’s let the Ice Court know the Dregs have come to call.”

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274. “You are owed nothing. Steel is earned.”

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

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276. “I just know there’s no way to live without pain – no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.”

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277. “Zoya was surprised to find she liked seeing Alina’s name on churches, liked hearing it spoken in prayers. Ravka had given too much of its love to men like the Darkling, the Apparat, even the Lantsov kings. They owed a little of it to an orphan girl with no dress sense.”

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278. “Curse you and all your Saints,′ he said to no one at all, then realized he was smiling.”

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279. “They fear you as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.”

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280. “If any of you survive, make sure I have an open casket,” Jesper said as he hefted two slender coils of rope over his shoulder and signalled for Wylan to follow him across the roof. “The world deserves a few more moments with this face.”

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281. “Listen to me,” he hissed, his face inches from Oomen’s. “You have two choices. You tell me what I want to know, and we drop you at our next port with your pockets full of enough coin to get you sewn up and buy you passage back to Kerch. Or I take the other eye, and I repeat this conversation with a blind man.”

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282. “Why don’t you just admit that you wanted to belong to him? Why don’t you admit that part of you still does?”

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283. “He doesn’t need a donkey,” says Ana Kuya. “He has a wife.”

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284. “Kaz heard Wylan retching. He tossed the eyeball overboard and jammed his spit-soaked handkerchief into the socket where Oomen’s eye had been. Then he grabbed Oomen’s jaw, his gloves leaving red smears on the enforcer’s chin. His actions were smooth, precise, as if he were dealing cards at the Crow Club or picking an easy lock, but his rage felt hot and mad and unfamiliar. Something within him had torn loose.”

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285. “I wonder sometimes how much we really understand our own gifts.”

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286. “I’m the kind of bastard they only manufacture in the barrel.”

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287. “Nina screamed, a howl that tore from the black space where her heart had beat only moments before. She searched for his pulse, for the light and force that had been Matthias.”

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288. “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.”

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289. “Barrel boys don’t have parents. We’re born in the harbour and crawl out of the canals.”

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290. “The purest Marxists are always men. Calamity comes too easily to women. Our lives can come apart in a single gesture, a rogue wave. And money? Money is the rock we cling to when the current would seize us.”

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291. “You can only sharpen a blade so far. In the end, it comes down to the quality of metal.”

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292. “To his left, he heard Inej laugh behind her mask. He’d never heard her laugh like that, giddy and wild.”

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293. “Jesper gave him a little shake. “Pull it together, kid.” “Not a kid,” Wylan mumbled, batting Jesper’s hands away. “Fine, you’re an elder statesman. Do you know how to shoot?” Wylan nodded slowly. “Skeet.”

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294. “It’s hard to keep track of all your wisdom.”

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295. “Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.”

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296. “You’re late,” said Zoya. “I’m the king,” said Nikolai. “That means you’re early.”

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297. “Well, we’ve managed to get ourselves locked into the most secure prison in the world. We’re either geniuses or the dumbest sons of bitches to ever breathe air.”

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298. “There’s nothing wrong with being a mapmaker.” “Of course not. And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”

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299. “Wind in your hair, sea spray on your skin. The cold of the living.”

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300. “Dunyasha Lazareva is dead.”

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