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“She read paperbacks too, one after the next like she was chain-smoking—romance, science fiction, old pulp fantasy. All she wanted to do was sit, unbothered in a circle of lamplight, and live someone else’s life.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Welcome home. Welcome back. We missed you. I missed you more than I should have, more than I wanted to. I went to hell for you. I’d do it again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“She was more beautiful than he remembered. No, that wasn’t true. It wasn’t that she had changed or that his vision had sharpened. He was just less afraid of her beauty now”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“I will serve you ’til the end of days.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“His monstrous queen. His gentle ruler.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Maybe they were just two killers, cursed to endure each other’s company, two doomed spirits trying to find their way home. Maybe they were monsters who liked the feeling of another monster looking back at them. But enough people had abandoned them both. She wasn’t going to be the next.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“You rescue me. I rescue you. That’s how
this works. To pay your debts, you had to know who you owed. You had to decide who you were willing to go to war for and who you trusted to jump into the fray for you. That was all there was in this world. No heroes or villains, just the people you’d brave the waves for, and the ones you’d let drown.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“They watched each other in the quiet of the kitchen. They knew everything about each other. They knew nothing at all. He had a sense that they had entered into an uneasy truce, but he couldn’t quite name the war.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“I’m bound to you, Stern. To the woman who brought me out of hell. I will serve you ’til the end of days.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Galaxy Stern,” Darlington said, his eyes flashing gold, “I have been crying out to you from the start.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Life is cruel. Magic is real. And I’m not ready to die”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Why raise children on the promise of magic? Why create a want in them that can never be satisfied—for revelation, for transformation—and then set them adrift in a bleak, pragmatic world?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Come on Darlington,' she said. 'Let's give them hell.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“I like this life better.” “Better than what?” “Better than what I was living before. Better than a world without magic. I think I’ve been waiting my whole life for the moment someone would see something in me that wasn’t ordinary.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“And what tools did Alex have? A little magic. A talent for misfortune. The ability to take a beating. It would have to be enough. 'This is my home,' she vowed, and nothing will take it from me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Dawes had said that Alex and Darlington were tied to the underworld, but the truth was that they were all bound together now. They had seen the very worst of each other, felt every ugly, shameful, frightening thing. Four pilgrims. Four children trembling in the dark. Four fools who had attempted what should never be dared. Four shoddy heroes on a quest who were meant to survive this reckless endeavor together.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Darlington’s smile was small. “You found me once, Stern. You’ll find me again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Is that what those things are?” she asked. “Around your wrists and neck? Marks?” “These?” He leaned forward, and the change in him was instant, the glowing eyes, the curling horns, the broadening of the shoulders. Without meaning to, Alex found herself scooting back in her chair. He was man and then monster in the space of a breath. The golden bands glowed at his wrists and throat. “Yeah,” she said, trying not to show her fear. “Those.” “These marks mean I am bound in service. Forever.” “To hell? To Golgarot?” He laughed then, the sound deep and cold, the thing at the bottom of the lake. “I’m bound to you, Stern. To the woman who brought me out of hell. I will serve you ’til the end of days.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“A single word. Darlington’s voice. Desperate, demanding. Wait. They’d almost done it, almost reached him. They’d been so close. He would have gotten it right. He always did.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“As for opportunity, she knew better than anyone: You had to make it for yourself.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“You know your problem?” “A predilection for first editions and women who like to lecture me about myself?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“She was more beautiful than he remembered. No, that wasn’t true. It wasn’t that she had changed or that his vision had sharpened. He was just less afraid of her beauty now.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Don’t die. Try not to be an asshole,” Turner said. “That’s the oath. Let’s get on with it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“When faced with death, better to dance than to lie down for it.” —”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Hell’s price must be paid. All that meant was hell was no different from any other place.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Why didn't these people over get it? Protect your own. Pay your debts. There was no other way to live, not if you wanted to live right. - Alex Stern”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“I’ve been too busy figuring out how to break into hell.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“I want to know how to be brave. Like you.” “I’m reckless. There’s a difference.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“I’m a demon, not a dullard, Stern.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent

“Come on, Darlington,” she said. “Let’s give them hell.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Hell Bent