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“A thousand girls would sell their own mothers to be in your shoes, and yet here you are, miserable and sulking like a child.” (Shadow and Bone Quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I wonder sometimes how much we really understand our own gifts.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“I’ve been waiting for you a long time, Alina. You and I are going to change the world.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“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
“If I told you that I’m trying to save the world, would you believe me?”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“I’m sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
“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
“You’re the first glimmer of hope I’ve had in a long time.”
Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone
