Irina > Irina's Quotes

“And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted."

"That's hardly limiting," he said.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
― 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

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”
― 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

“I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You can’t be serious,” I said.
“Not on a regular basis, no.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I don't think-"
"Clearly. Why start now?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Were you always this much trouble?"
"I like to think of myself as delightfully complex.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Home is a choice.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“Safe does not mean happy, does not mean well, does not mean kind.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Tired can be a kind of sick, if it lasts long enough.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“Stay with me. Stay with me. Stay with me.
I would write the words a thousand times if they'd be strong enough to hold you here.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“She knows too well what’s it like when people take one weakness and define you by it.”
― V.E. Schwab, Gallant

“I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. Smart. Strong. Beautiful. Imperfect by your own standards but so wonderfully perfect for me.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“In that moment, I wanted to hunt down every person who’d ever made her feel like she was a failure, a disappointment, or anything less than fucking perfect.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“trying to stay away from her was like asking the ocean to stop kissing the shore. Impossible.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“You have five minutes, sweetheart, or you’ll find out firsthand that I’m not always the gentleman you think I am.”
― Ana Huang, King of Pride

“A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.”
― Stephen King, It

“That’s a pretty heavy burden to bear, being everything for someone.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“Why are you so beautiful, do you think? So hungry? So able to bend the wills of those around you? You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow

“Grey was an enchantress who looked like sex and smelled like a field of wildflowers, the human embodiment of late-summer evenings in the South of France. She accentuated her natural beauty wherever possible. She wore high heels and delicate lace bras and soft smoky eye makeup. She always knew the right amount of skin to show to achieve that cool-sexy look.”
― Krystal Sutherland, House of Hollow: The haunting New York Times bestseller

“It is a danger to become nothing. You hope no one will look, and so one day when you go to find yourself, only dust remains, ground down to nothing from sheer neglect.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“What do you really think of this place?"
"What does a beetle think of the boot that crushes it? It is a very excellent boot with a most impressive sole and made of the finest leather.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“And you're not afraid...of the devil? Of his minions? "Fear men, Luzia," he said. "Fear their ambition and the crimes they commit in its service. But don't fear magic or what you may do with it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison?"
He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life."
"Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

“Mijo, if the Bible tells me I shouldn’t love my kids, then the Bible is wrong.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School

“I shouldn't have to talk about it if I don't want to. I don't want to have to tell everyone.”
― Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School