Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “If we don’t survive this night, I will die unafraid, Kaz. Can you say the same?”

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

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303. “Un secreto no es como una moneda. No conserva su valor al gastarlo.”

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304. “Mirror magic is all about reflection and perception. A lie isn’t a lie until someone believes it. It doesn’t matter how charming you are if there’s no one to charm.”

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305. “Don’t wish for bricks when you can build from stone. Use whatever or whoever is in front of you.”

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

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307. “That’s the problem with Ketterdam, Jesper thought as they stumbled uncertainly through the dark. Trusting the wrong person can get you killed.”

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308. “This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow.”

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309. “In that moment, he wished things might have been different. That he might not die tomorrow. That he could be led by his heart instead of duty. Because Zoya was not kind and she was not easy. But she was already a queen.”

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310. “I’ve waged the war you forced me to, Alina,” said the Darkling. “If you hadn’t run from me, the Second Army would still be intact. All those Grisha would still be alive. Your tracker would be safe and happy with his regiment. When will it be enough? When will you let me stop?”

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311. “Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb.”

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312. “But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.”

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313. “Maybe he was the same. A bullet in a chamber, spending his whole life waiting for the moment he would have direction.”

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314. “It was because she was listening so closely that she knew the exact moment when Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, the bastard of the Barrel and deadliest boy in Ketterdam, fainted.”

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315. “That night, Kaz took Saskia’s red ribbon from beneath his pillow. He rolled it into a neat spiral and clutched it in his palm. He lay in bed and tried to pray, but all he could think about was the magician’s coin: there and then gone.”

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316. “There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.”

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317. “Battles are often lost because people don’t know which war they’re fighting.”

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318. “Finally, they stood. Inej had predicted that the Menagerie would arrive late – but they still needed to be in position and ready to move when the time came. And yet, they hesitated. The knowledge that they might never see each other again, that some of them – maybe all of them – might not survive this night hung heavy in the air. A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.”

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319. “This action will have no echo.”

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320. “If you two keep fighting, you’re going to get us all killed, and I have a lot more card games I need to lose.”

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321. “Until this moment, Wylan hadn’t quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn’t keep out of the red. 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.”

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322. “Kaz had taught her to crack a safe, pick a pocket, wield a knife. He’d gifted her with her first blade, the one she called Sankt Petyr – not as pretty as wild geraniums, but more practical, she supposed.”

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323. “Gentleman scholar’ seems like a good description for you.” “A true gentleman doesn’t boast of the title, and a true scholar has better uses for his time than downing flaming Dr Pepper shots.”

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324. “I was a living star. I was combustion. I was a new sun born to shatter air and eat the earth.”

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325. “I have loved you all my life, Mal. There is no end to our story.”

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326. “There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us.”

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327. “I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more.”

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328. “Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”

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329. “They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.”

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330. “We’ll tell each other lies as married couples do. It will be a good game. Go on, wife. Tell me I’m a handsome fellow who will never age and who will die with all of his own teeth in his head. Make me believe it.”

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331. “Sometimes our heroes don’t make it to the end.”

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332. “I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title.”

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333. “Nina, I am with you because you let me be with you. There is no greater honor than to stand by your side.”

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334. “He didn’t deserve peace and he didn’t deserve forgiveness, but if he was going to die today, maybe the one thing he’d earned was the memory of her – brighter than anything he would ever have a right to – to take with him to the other side.”

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335. “He was a collection of hard lines and tailored edges – sharp jaw, lean build, wool coat snug across his shoulders.”

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336. “It’s simply a question of finding the right incentive. Pauper or prince, every man can be bought.”

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337. “Feeling anything for Kaz Brekker was the worst follishness.”

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338. “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too.”

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339. “He’d walked into this place buoyed on bravado, a survivor, a champion of the Barrel. He’d leave as another victim of Kaz Brekker.”

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340. “Kaz flexed his fingers in his gloves. How did you survive the Barrel? When they took everything from you, you found a way to make something from nothing.”

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341. “If we don’t dream, who will?”

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342. “To hell with revenge, to hell with his schemes. If Rollins had done something to Inej, Kaz would paint East Stave with his entrails.”

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343. “That’s the laugh,” he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground.”

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344. “He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you.”

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345. “Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do.”

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346. “But maybe being brave didn’t mean being unafraid.”

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347. “One could plot violent espionage and still hope for dessert.”

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348. “He’d broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn’t set right, and he’d limped ever after. So he’d found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was no broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.”

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349. “Zoya stared up at Nina in wonder. “You’re alive,” she said. Her gaze slid to Matthias, thrashing like the biggest, angriest butterfly ever pinned to a page. “And you’ve made a new friend.”

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350. “The heat of the incinerator wrapped around Inej like a living thing, a desert dragon in his den, hiding from the ice, waiting for her. She knew her body’s limits, and she knew she had no more to give. She’d made a bad wager. It was as simple as that. The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The only question was when it would fall.”

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