Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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.”

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252. “Pekka Rollins couldn’t count the threats he’d heard, the men he’d killed, or the men he’d seen die, but the look in Brekker’s eye still sent a chill slithering up his spine. Some wrathful thing in this boy was beginning to get loose, and Rollin’s didn’t want to be around when it slipped its leash.”

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253. “Perfect night for tearing a hole in the universe, no?”

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254. “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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255. “Who would speak for Lilyana, for Genya and Alina and Baghra if she did not? Who will speak for me?”

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256. “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.”

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257. “So why do your eyes keep searching the crowd for her?” “They do not,” Matthias protested. She had to laugh at the ferocity of his scowl. He drew a finger through a pile of crumbs. “Nina is everything you say. It’s too much.” “Mmm,” Inej murmured, taking a sip from her mug. “Maybe you’re just not enough.”

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258. “Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show.”

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259. “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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260. “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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261. “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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262. “But if you couldn’t open a door, you just had to make a new one.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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273. “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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274. “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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275. “I like to bet on myself whenever I can. But usually with other people’s money.”

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

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

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

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

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281. “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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282. “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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283. “Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. ” Princes bleed just like other men.”

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284. “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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285. “Dunyasha Lazareva is dead.”

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286. “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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287. “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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288. “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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289. “Let’s let the Ice Court know the Dregs have come to call.”

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

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

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

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

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295. “When the coffers are empty and their bellies growl, even good men turn bad.”

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296. “If we don’t survive this night, I will die unafraid, Kaz. Can you say the same?”

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297. “Being a leader means someone is always watching you.”

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

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300. “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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