Leigh Bardugo quotes

Leigh Bardugo

Leigh Bardugo is an Israeli-American fantasy author. She is best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, which include the Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, and the King of Scars duology. (Leigh Bardugo quotes)

“A different kind of knight, one who’d chosen to protect the girl the world wanted to destroy; one born to slay dragons, but maybe to befriend them, too.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“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.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“A thousand girls would sell their own mothers to be in your shoes, and yet here you are, miserable and sulking like a child.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“After fools wage their battles, it is the rats that rule the fields and towns.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“All you children playing with fire, looking surprised when the house burns down”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“And maybe he wanted her to be the kind of girl who dressed as Queen Mab, who loved words and had stars in her blood.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“And while she slept, Magda took the two fingers and ground them down to a wet red meal that she mixed into the batter.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Witch of Duva

“Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Bad fates do not always follow those who deserve them.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“Because I am greedy for the sight of you. Because the prospect of facing this war, this loss, without you fills me with fear. Because I find I don’t want to fight for a future if I can’t find a way to make a future with you.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“Because people are always going to look. They’re always going to judge, so you can say nothing or you can at least answer back.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“Beware of power. There is no amount of it that can make them love you.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“But if you couldn’t open a door, you just had to make a new one.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“But there are others who worship him still, the Starless One, patron saint of those who seek salvation in the dark.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“But think how brightly you might have burned if you hadn’t always walked in shadow.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. There were always excuses for why girls died.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“Cautious was helpful; paranoid was just another word for distracted.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Witch of Duva

“Diana wondered if it got tiring being splendid all the time. Maybe heroes were just like that.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“Do that thing you do where you use too many words to say something simple and confuse the issue.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“Don’t underestimate the power of the grand gesture, Alina. The people like spectacle.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Don’t wish for bricks when you can build from stone. Use whatever or whoever is in front of you.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Everything in the world could be broken down into the same small parts. What looked like magic was really the Grisha manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“Fear is a powerful ally, but feed it too often, make it too strong, and it will turn on you.”

“Freedom is a burden, but you will learn to bear it.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Too-Clever Fox

“Get a message to the Crow Club,” she said. “Tell Kaz Brekker the queen of Ravka has a job for him.” (Leigh Bardugo quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“Get them to follow the little orders, and they’ll follow the big ones.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Go on, stamp your foot, fight your true nature. All the while, your country suffers.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“Grisha can only use and alter what already exists. True creation is a different kind of power.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Have power on this dark land to lighten it, and power on this dead world to make it live.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“He did it because he liked learning the puzzle of each person. He did it because it felt good to feel his influence and understanding grow. But above all else, he did it because he knew he needed to rescue his country. Nikolai had to save Ravka from his own family.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“He feared for his country and for himself. He’d be a fool not to. But some part of him, maybe the privateer, maybe the demon, maybe the prince who had clawed his way to the throne, was itching for a fight.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“He needed her and she needed him. That was how most disasters began.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he’ll never have enough of her. Like he’s trying to capture what he can before she’s gone.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“He would have lived next door to a garbage gully if it meant a roof over his head, hot meals, waking up in the same room every morning without his heart hammering as he tried to remember where he was.”

“He’d told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“Her mother had told her the mortal world was pocked with memorials and monuments to loss. They build with steel and stone and promise to remember, she’d said. But they never do.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“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
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“I am not ruined. I am ruination.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“I can bear ugliness, I find the only thing I cannot live with death.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“I can bear ugliness,” he said. “I find the one thing I cannot live with death.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Too-Clever Fox

“I didn’t think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“I don’t care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“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.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“I hope you weren’t looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“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.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“I let you die. To save myself, I let you die. That is the danger in keeping company with survivors.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“I like to bet on myself whenever I can. But usually with other people’s money.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“I make it a policy never to seduce anyone prettier than I am.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I’d catch myself just walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I’d seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I’d realize that you weren’t there anymore, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I’ve risked my life for you. I’ve walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I’d do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don’t tell me why we don’t belong together,” he said fiercely.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly awake until I began to dream of other worlds.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“I wanted to believe that Mal and I would always be friends, but I had to face the fact that we were on different paths. Lying in the dark, waiting for sleep, I wondered if those paths would just keep taking us further and further apart, and if a day might come when we would be strangers to each other once again.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“I will love an honest monster before I swear loyalty to a treacherous king.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“I wonder sometimes how much we really understand our own gifts.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“I would burn a thousand villages, sacrifice a thousand lives to keep you safe.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“I would give you a crown if I could,” he said. “I would show you the world from the prow of a ship. I would choose you, Zoya. As my general, as my friend, as my bride. I would give you a sapphire the size of an acorn.” He reached into his pocket. “And all I would ask in return is that you wear this damnable ribbon in your hair on our wedding day.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“I would have 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.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“I’m going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I’m going to get my girl.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“I’m not supposed to let you in,” Jesper said. Brekker seemed unperturbed. “Why not?” “Because every time I do, you ask me to break the law.” A voice from behind Jesper said, “The problem isn’t that he asks, it’s that you always say yes.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“I’m telling you that if you want to be a leader, it’s time you started thinking and acting like one.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“I’m the only Grisha to ever wear two amplifiers. And I’m the only Grisha alive powerful enough to take on the Darkling or his shadow soldiers. No one else can do what I can.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“I’m the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“I’m used to being the center of attention wherever I go. I’ve been told I could charm the shoes off a racehorse midstride.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina. You and I are going to change the world.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“I’ve risked my life for you. I’ve walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I’d do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don’t tell me we don’t belong together.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“If Alex could have told Darlington anything, it would have been, come back. She would have said it in English and Spanish. She would have used the imperative.” (Leigh Bardugo quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“If I told you that I’m trying to save the world, would you believe me?”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“If men were ashamed when they should be, they’d have no time for anything else.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“If you cannot bear our pain, you are not fit to carry our strength.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“If you listened to a man’s words, you might learn his wants. The trick was to look into his heart and discover his needs.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“If you were going to hell together, murder seemed like a good place to start.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“If your god is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“I’ll tell you a thousand stories, my love. We’ll write the new endings, one by one.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“I’m perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“I’m sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

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

“In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“It is always the same trap,” she said gently. “You longed for conversation. The bear craved jokes. The gray wolf missed music. The boar just wanted someone to tell her troubles to. The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Too-Clever Fox

“It isn’t something separate from you. It isn’t an animal that shies away from you or chooses whether or not to come when you call it. Your power serves you because that is its purpose, because it cannot help but serve you.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“It was not natural to make life from death.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“It’s simply a question of finding the right incentive. Pauper or prince, every man can be bought.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“It’s a balance, his mother always said. Fear is a powerful ally, but feed it too often, make it too strong, and it will turn on you.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“It’s not natural for women to fight.” “It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“It’s the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they’re the ones who keep trying.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“Just because you escape one trap, doesn’t mean you will escape the next.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Too-Clever Fox

“Just what kind of life do you think you could have with him, Alina? He’s otkazat’sya. He can never hope to understand your power, and if he did, he’d only come to fear you. There is no ordinary life for people like you and me.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“Let the hounds give chase. I do not fear death, because I command it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“Life’s a funny thing, isn’t it? All I ever wanted was a drop of luck to flavor my tea. Now I’m drowning in it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“Love was the destroyer. It made mourners, widows, left misery in its wake. Grief and love were one and the same. Grief was the shadow love left when it was gone.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“Maybe it feels easier that way, just being invisible instead of always worrying what people think of you.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“Maybe some people are destined for one another and lucky enough to know it when they finally meet.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“Maybe the gift of being human is that we do not give up- even when all hope is lost.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? 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. 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
Crooked Kingdom

“Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“Military life had long ago cured me of most of my modesty, but there was something very different about being the only naked person in the room, especially when everyone kept shooting curious glances at me.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“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
King of Scars

“Most women suffer thorns for the sake of the flowers, but we who wield power adorn ourselves with flowers to hide the sting of our thorns.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“My life began with wanting something for myself.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“Never let them touch you. Because one touch was enough to reveal it, this gift lurking inside him. It was enough to make him less a boy than a prize.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“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.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“No matter the height of the mountain, the climbing is the same.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for ‘good luck.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

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

“Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“One cannot live on love or cutlery.”
Leigh Bardugo
Little Knife

“Our fates are entwined now, Alina, and there’s nothing either of us can do about that.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Peace was like any high. It couldn’t last. It was an illusion, something that could be interrupted in a moment and lost forever.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“She could stay this way forever with nothing but sky and sand surrounding her. She laughed, her heart leaping. This was the magic she’d been promised as a child, the dream that all those fairy stories had offered and never delivered. She wished the girl she’d been could have lived this.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“She had not been much to look at in her youth, and she knew well that only courage is required for an adventure.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“She held each sorrow like a chafing grain and grew her grudges like pearls.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“She learned which herbs were valuable and which were dangerous, and which herbs were valuable because they were dangerous.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Witch of Duva

“She rose and brushed the hair back from his face. “You read the flow of power the way others chart tides,” she marveled. “It will make you a great leader.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“She took pity on the lovers who wished for a new world together instead of an old world divided.”

“She wanted the solitude of the cliffs. She wanted to be alone until the hurt dwindled, until it was small enough to pack away.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“She was terrifying in her beauty, bright like a devouring star.”
Leigh Bardugo
Little Knife

“She would have her ship and he would have his city.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

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

“She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“She’s sealed herself away from the world of the living, for the sake of being free of the dead.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“Silly girl. There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Witch of Duva

“Some people were built for love and some were built for war. One did not lend itself to the other.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“Start building walls, and people begin to wonder what you’re hiding.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart. You cannot protect yourself from suffering. To live is to grieve. You are not protecting yourself by shutting yourself off from the world. You are limiting yourself.” (Leigh Bardugo quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“Take me back. Make me into someone who has never been done harm. Go as far as you can. Make me brand-new. No bruises. No scars.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you’d been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“The beast might shout and snarl, and he might well devour her, but he’d at least been interested enough to listen to her speak.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“The fox and the nightingale made a quiet life together. A lesser creature might have held Koja’s mistakes against him, might have mocked him for his pride. But Lula was not only clever. She was wise.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Too-Clever Fox

“The Grisha claims the amplifier, but the amplifier claims the Grisha, as well. Once it is done, there can be no other. Like calls to like, and the bond is made.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“The hut seemed to shift, almost as if it were turning to welcome her. She hesitated, took a step back.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Witch of Duva

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“The problem with hiring a man who sells his honor is that you can always be outbid.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“The problem with wanting,” he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, “is that it makes us weak.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“The roses remember, even if wise men choose to forget.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we’d shared, for the love I’d felt, for the hopeful girl I would never be again.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Too-Clever Fox

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“The world is changing. We change with it, or there will be nothing left to remember us but the dust.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“Then the memory of the Darkling’s kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my thoughts like leaves and making my heart swoop and dive like a bird borne aloft by uncertain currents.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“There is no greater power than faith, and there will be no greater army than one driven by it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“There is no joy in having been born mortal. You need never know the sorrow of what it is to be human. Among all of us, only you will never know the pain of death.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“There is no pain like the pain of transformation.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is? Faith.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“There should be more magic. Not the creased-greasepaint performances of clowns and hack illusionists. Not card tricks. The magic he’d been promised would be found at the backs of wardrobes, under bridges, through mirrors. It was dangerous and alluring and it did not seek to entertain.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“There was a war, there were a thousand wars. I knew a killer. I knew a hero. They might’ve been a same man.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“There was no safe place for my thoughts to wander. The past was full of horrors, and the future left me with that breathless, rising panic.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“There was no sound but it own for falls and the crackling of the flames behind us. No rustle came from the trees, no insect buzz or nightbird call. The woods were sent in their grief.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“There was nothing else to do but keep moving forward. You chose your path. You walked it. You hoped to find a way home again.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“There were always excuses for why girls died”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“There will be, he promised in the darkness, new words written upon his heart. I will make one.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“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.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“There’s something wrong with this country. No land. No life. Just a uniform and a gun.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“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.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“They did not look to each other for comfort. They kept each other marching.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“They pray that their children will be brave and clever and strong, that they will tell the true stories instead of the easy ones. They pray for sons with red eyes and daughters with horns.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“They were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides, to find each other and lose each other too quickly. She would not keep him here. Not like this.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“They would build a new world together. But first they had to burn the old one down.”
Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

“They’d made the mistake of teaching him he could survive”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“This country is coming apart. Someone needs to put it back together before it’s too late.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their hats and smile and demonstrate good table manners. They never show you their tails.” (Leigh Bardugo quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“This is the problem with making a thing forbidden. It does nothing but build an ache in the heart.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“This is what love does. In the stories, love healed your wounds, fixed what was broken, allowed you to go on. But love wasn’t a spell, some kind of benediction to be whispered, a balm or a cure-all. It was a single, fragile thread, which grew stronger through connection, through shared hardship and trust.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“Those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“Though he’d trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with his shame.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“Truth means something different when it’s given freely.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“Wanting is why people get up in the morning. It gives them something to dream of at night. The more I wanted, the more I became like them, the more real I became.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“War is the price of change.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“We all die. Not everyone dies for a reason.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.”
Leigh Bardugo
Crooked Kingdom

“We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“We cannot spend our lives in hiding, wondering what we might accomplish if given the chance. We have to take that chance ourselves.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“We were not made to please princes.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you’re human, but never when you feel it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“When she’d gone, she had taken their only lantern. He hadn’t had the courage to ask her to leave it with him. He was too old to be afraid of the dark. So he’d lain awake for two nights, curled beneath his furs, listening to the wolves howl, counting the minutes until morning.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“With each life I took, I soon saw a new temple raised to my glory – built by boys who never stopped to wonder at the power they claimed, only took it as their due. They toy with magic while I fashion immortality.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“With the last bit of his strength, he tore his arm free and lashed out blindly, furiously, with all his terror and rage, with all the hope that had been born and died this day. Let me make a mark on this world before I leave it.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Demon in the Wood

“Yes, supermodels have the power to make you buy things you don’t need and feel terrible about yourself.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“You are not what I expected. A lesser Saint. But perhaps a better queen. I will pray for you, Alina Starkov.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“You can choose faith or you can choose fear. But only one will bring you what you long for.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“You can choose faith or you can choose fear. But only one will bring what you long for.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“You can’t spend his money if you’re dead.” “I’ll acquire expensive habits in the afterlife.” “There’s a difference between confidence and arrogance.”
Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows

“You can’t live in fear. You make things happen or they happen to you.”
Leigh Bardugo
Wonder Woman : Warbringer

“You couldn’t keep sidling up to death and dipping your toe in. Eventually it grabbed your ankle and tried to pull you under.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

“You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising

“You know how the stories go. Interesting things only happen to pretty girls; you will be home by sunset.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door. “They always end up dead.”
Leigh Bardugo
Siege and Storm

“You know the problem with heroes and Saints? They always end up dead.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Lives of Saints

“You push us away, keep us at arm’s distance so that you won’t mourn us. But you’ll mourn us anyway. That’s the way love works.”
Leigh Bardugo
Rule of Wolves

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled – not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns

“You will wear that collar for the rest of your very, very long life, Alina. Fight me as long as you’re able. You will find I have far more practice with eternity.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone Quotes