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“After fools wage their battles, it is the rats that rule the fields and towns.” (Ruin and Rising Quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
“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
“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
“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
“I am not ruined. I am ruination.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
“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 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 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 make it a policy never to seduce anyone prettier than I am.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
“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’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
“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
“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
“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
“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
“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 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’s something wrong with this country. No land. No life. Just a uniform and a gun.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
“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
“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 keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.”
Leigh Bardugo
Ruin and Rising
