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“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.” (Ninth House Quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“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
“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
“Have power on this dark land to lighten it, and power on this dead world to make it live.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“He needed her and she needed him. That was how most disasters began.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“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 want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“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
Ninth House
“If you were going to hell together, murder seemed like a good place to start.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“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’s sealed herself away from the world of the living, for the sake of being free of the dead.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“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
“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 were always excuses for why girls died”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“They’d made the mistake of teaching him he could survive”
Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House
“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
“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
