Top 500 Leigh Bardugo Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Speak, Nazyalensky. When you purse your lips like that, you look like you’ve made love to a lemon.”

— Leigh Bardugo

402. “Kaz had rescued her from that hopelessness, and their lives had been a series of rescues ever since, a string of debts that they never tallied as they saved each other again and again.”

— Leigh Bardugo

403. “It’s a symbol, Helvar. If your god is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one. Let’s get out of here.”

— Leigh Bardugo

404. “Do not bend,” Nina snapped. “Do not leap. Do not move abruptly. If you don’t promise to take it easy, I’ll slow your heart and keep you in a coma until I can be sure you’ve recovered fully.” “Nina Zenik, as soon as I figure out where you’ve put my knives, we’re going to have words.”

— Leigh Bardugo

405. “Eli’s long fingers cupped her face, traced the nape of her neck, kept her still, as if he needed to give her every bit of his attention, as if he could learn her like a language, plot her like a course. Eli kissed Gracie like she was a song and he was determined to hear every note.”

— Leigh Bardugo

406. “You weeel catch the korpa.” “The what?” “The korpa!” I declared in dire tones. “Your private parts weeel shrink to nothink!”

— Leigh Bardugo

407. “The ache of his absence felt like a hook lodged inside her heart. The hurt was always there, but in moments like these, it was as if someone had seized hold of the line and pulled.”

— Leigh Bardugo

408. “She’d shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he’d ever known. And if she was, then Grisha weren’t inherently evil. They were like anyone else – full of the potential to do great good, and also great harm. To ignore that would make Matthias the monster.”

— Leigh Bardugo

409. “It’s okay to flout expectations, but never disappoint them.”

— Leigh Bardugo

410. “The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent.”

— Leigh Bardugo

411. “We all have spaces we keep blank.”

— Leigh Bardugo

412. “You are a stolen painting, Kuwei. Too recognizable to sell on the open market, too valuable to leave lying around. You are worthless to me.”

— Leigh Bardugo

413. “The boy they called Dirtyhands didn’t need a reason any more than he needed permission – to break a leg, sever an alliance, or change a man’s fortunes with the turn of a card.”

— Leigh Bardugo

414. “Kaz narrowed his eyes. “I’m not some character out of a children’s story who plays harmless pranks and steals from the rich to give to the poor.”

— Leigh Bardugo

415. “Her silks were feathers, and she was free.”

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416. “Her voice had brought him back from the dark; it had been the tether he gripped and used to drag himself back to some semblance of sanity.”

— Leigh Bardugo

417. “I’m not sure why I began this,” she admitted. “But I know why I have to finish. I know why fate brought me here, why it placed me in the path of this prize.”

— Leigh Bardugo

418. “I love it when you quote me.”

— Leigh Bardugo

419. “With a start, I realized that the room smelled like him. I had never even noticed that he had a scent. I shut my eyes and breathed deeply. What was it? The crisp edge of a winter wind. Bare branches. The smell of absence, the smell of night.”

— Leigh Bardugo

420. “Darlington was a good talker, but he was happiest when no one was speaking to him, when he didn’t have to perform the ritual of himself and he could simply be left to watch others.”

— Leigh Bardugo

421. “If you write, you’re a writer.”

— Leigh Bardugo

422. “His knuckles brushed against her skin and lightning cracked through him, left him paralyzed, rooted to the earth. His heart should not be making that sound.”

— Leigh Bardugo

423. “Zoya’s company was like strong drink. Bracing – and best to abstain if you couldn’t handle the kick.”

— Leigh Bardugo

424. “For the briefest moment, Ulla despised Signy, as we can only hate those who rescue us from loneliness.”

— Leigh Bardugo

425. “You say exile, I say extended holiday.”

— Leigh Bardugo

426. “Do you ask your heart to beat or your lungs to breathe? Your power serves you because that is it’s purpose, because it cannot help but serve you.”

— Leigh Bardugo

427. “She was the Queen of Mourning, and in its depths, she would never drown.”

— Leigh Bardugo

428. “In the Barrel, we don’t trade in safety,” Kaz said, the abraded burn of his voice carrying over the crowd. “There’s only strength and weakness. You don’t ask for respect. You earn it.” You don’t ask for forgiveness. You earn it.”

— Leigh Bardugo

429. “Cautious was helpful; paranoid was just another word for distracted.”

— Leigh Bardugo

430. “Alex watched in the mirror as her history spilled over her skin. The scars she had chosen for herself. We are the shepherds. The time for that was done. Better to be a rattler. Better to be a jackal.”

— Leigh Bardugo

431. “Inej was always trying to wring little bits of decency from him.”

— Leigh Bardugo

432. “Now you kno what monsters once lurked in the woods near Duva, and if you ever meet a bear with a golden collar, you will be able to greep him by name. So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces. Shall we have something good to eat? Well then, come help me stir the pot.”

— Leigh Bardugo

433. “I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”

— Leigh Bardugo

434. “You move forward, and when you falter, you get up. And when you can’t, you let us carry you. You let me carry you.”

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435. “How many rules have you broken since you met me? How many laws? They won’t be the last. Nothing about us will ever be proper,” she said. She tilted her face up to his. So close now it was as if they were already touching. “Not the way we met. Not the life we lead. And not the way we kiss.”

— Leigh Bardugo

436. “My king lies bleeding. I am his subject and his soldier, and I come to fight for him.”

— Leigh Bardugo

437. “The age of Grisha power is coming to an end.”

— Leigh Bardugo

438. “Inej’s mother had told her that gifted wire walkers were descended from the People of the Air, that they’d once had wings, and that in the right light, those wings could still be glimpsed on the humans to whom they showed favor.”

— Leigh Bardugo

439. “If you ever cared about me at all, don’t follow.”

— Leigh Bardugo

440. “I don’t like this,” said Matthias. Jesper had smiled his reckless gunslinger’s grin. “To be fair, Matthias, you don’t like much.”

— Leigh Bardugo

441. “Only two were unmarked. Tolya and Tamar led the charge, eyes wild, blades flashing, roaring my name.”

— Leigh Bardugo

442. “Innocence was a luxury.”

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443. “A few weeks, maybe a month,” he said as he ran the wet cloth under his arms and the hard planes of his chest, water trickling down his torso. For Saints’ sake, Inej thought as her cheeks heated. She’d lost most of her modesty during her time with the Menagerie, but really, there were limits. What would Kaz say if she suddenly stripped down and started washing herself in front of him? He’d probably tell me not to drip on the desk, she thought with a scowl.”

— Leigh Bardugo

444. “A good magician wasn’t much different from a proper thief.”

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445. “Tell me some lies.”

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446. “I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it’s good.”

— Leigh Bardugo

447. “You see, every man is a safe, a vault of secrets and longings. Now, there are those who take the brute’s way, but I prefer a gentler approach- the right pressure applied at the right moment, in the right place. It’s a delicate thing.”

— Leigh Bardugo

448. “A friend of mine liked to tell me that women love flowers. He had many flirtations, but he never found a wife. Do you know why? Because women may love flowers, but only one woman loves the scent of gardenias in late summer that remind her of her grandmother’s porch. Only one woman loves apple blossoms in a blue cup. Only one woman loves wild geraniums.”

— Leigh Bardugo

449. “Beware of power. There is no amount of it that can make them love you.”

— Leigh Bardugo

450. “When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.” With the moonlight gleaming off the lenses of his goggles and with his greatcoat billowing around him, he looked like a complete madman.”

— Leigh Bardugo