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  • #1
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #2
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #3
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We are all someone's monster.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #4
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #5
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No Mourners.
    No Funerals.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

  • #6
    Leigh Bardugo
    “When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #7
    Leigh Bardugo
    “The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I took a breath. “Your highness—”
    “Nikolai,” he corrected. “But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #10
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I want to kiss you,” Nikolai said. “But I won’t. Not until you’re thinking of me instead of trying to forget him.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #11
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I saw the prince when I was in Os Alta,” said Ekaterina. “He’s not bad looking.”
    “Not bad looking?” said another voice. “He’s damnably handsome.”
    Luchenko scowled. “Since when—”
    “Brave in battle, smart as a whip.” Now the voice seemed to be coming from above us. Luchenko craned his neck, peering into the trees. “An excellent dancer,” said the voice. “Oh, and an even better shot.”
    “Who—” Luchenko never got to finish. A blast rang out, and a tiny black hole appeared between his eyes.
    I gasped. “Imposs—”
    “Don’t say it,” muttered Mal.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

  • #12
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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, King of Scars

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “You’re mad,” I said. “You know what he can do. No prize is worth that.”
    Sturmhond grinned. “That remains to be seen.”
    “The Darkling will hunt you for the rest of your days.”
    “Then you and I will have something in common, won’t we? Besides, I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
    Mal crossed his arms and considered the privateer. “I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.”
    “I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond said. “It can be hard to choose.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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

  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “You never know," said Nikolai. "I've been busy. I might have some surprises in store for the Darkling yet."

    "Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."

    "Well, now you've ruined the surprise.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I can’t decide if you’re a fearmonger or a coward.”
    “And I can’t decide if you’re an idiot or an idiot.”
    leigh bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “And there’s no way I’m leaving you alone with Prince Perfect.”
    “So you don’t trust me to resist his charms?”
    “I don’t even trust myself. I’ve never seen anyone work a crowd the way he does. I’m pretty sure the rocks and trees are getting ready to swear fealty to him.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Do that thing you do where you use too many words to say something simple and confuse the issue.”
    Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Alina, I'll be back to fetch you for dinner, but should you grow restless, do feel free to run screaming from the room or take a dagger to her. Whatever seems most fitting at the time."

    "Are you still here?" snapped Baghra.

    "I go but hope to remain in your heart," he said solemnly. Then he winked and disappeared.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It's not exciting if nothing can go wrong.”
    Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “My mother was an oyster,” he said with a wink. “And I’m the pearl.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Say something spiteful.”
    “Why?” she asked faintly.
    “Because I’m fairly certain I'm hallucinating and in my dreams you're much nicer.”
    “You're an idiot, Nikolai.”
    Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

  • #25
    Katherine Arden
    “All my life,” she said, “I have been told ‘go’ and ‘come.’ I am told how I will live, and I am told how I must die. I must be a man’s servant and a mare for his pleasure, or I must hide myself behind walls and surrender my flesh to a cold, silent god. I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me. Please. Please let me help you.”
    Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

  • #26
    Katherine Arden
    “Every time you take one path, you must live with the memory of the other: of a life left unchosen. Decide as seems best, one course or the other; each way will have its bitter with its sweet.”
    Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

  • #27
    Katherine Arden
    Witch. The word drifted across his mind. We call such women so, because we have no other name.”
    Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

  • #28
    Katherine Arden
    “Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”
    Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

  • #29
    Katherine Arden
    “Wild birds die in cages.”
    Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

  • #30
    Katherine Arden
    “There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”
    Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch



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