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  • #1
    Lynette Noni
    “So you’re right, you don’t need me fighting your battles. But if you’ll let me, I’d like to be standing beside you as you fight them.”
    Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

  • #2
    Lynette Noni
    “Never apologize for loving someone. Even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.”
    Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

  • #3
    Lynette Noni
    “Our scars define us. They tell a story of courage and survival. They tell of who we are at our deepest being, of the challenges we've faced and overcome.”
    Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

  • #4
    Lynette Noni
    “Words demand respect. They are beautiful; they are terrible. They are a gift and a curse. I will never forget what they can do.”
    Lynette Noni, Whisper

  • #5
    Lynette Noni
    “Life is full of crossroads, Alex. Full of choices. There are many paths we can take. It’s up to us to decide which ones lead in the right direction.”
    Lynette Noni, Raelia

  • #6
    Lynette Noni
    “Don’t fear the shadows. Make the shadows fear you.”
    Lynette Noni, Vardaesia

  • #7
    Lynette Noni
    “We can look at the darkness and let it consume us, or we can recognize that it’s only temporary, trusting that once it passes, the light will return,”
    Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #10
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #11
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #12
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
    "So?" said Kaz.
    "Well, usually it's just half the city.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I am grateful you're alive", he said. "I am grateful that you're beside me. I am grateful that you're eating."
    She rested her head on his shoulder.
    "You're better that waffles, Matthias Helvar."
    A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips.
    "Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
    "Guns?" asked Jesper.
    "Ships?" queried Inej.
    "Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
    "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Meeting you was a disaster.”
    She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
    Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful for that disaster. I needed a catastrophe to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”
    “I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”
    “You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Where do you think the money went?” he repeated.
    “Guns?” asked Jesper.
    “Ships?” queried Inej.
    “Bombs?” suggested Wylan.
    “Political bribes?” offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are,” she whispered.
    He shrugged. “They all seem like practical choices.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “This action will have no echo.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “You’re stupid about a lot of things, Wylan, but you are not stupid. And if I ever hear you call yourself a moron again, I’m going to tell Matthias you tried to kiss Nina. With tongue.”
    Wylan wiped his nose on his sleeve. “He’ll never believe it.”
    “Then I’ll tell Nina you tried to kiss Matthias. With tongue.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Why do you guys say that, anyway? No mourners, no funerals? Why not just say good luck or be safe?”
    “We like to keep our expectations low.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #25
    Leigh Bardugo
    “He'd told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #26
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I don't like this."
    "To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #27
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #28
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Don’t worry, Da. People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It’s basically a handshake.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #29
    Leigh Bardugo
    “They were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides, to find each other and lose each other too quickly. She would not keep him here. Not like this.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

  • #30
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Until this moment, Wylan hadn't quite understood how much they meant to him. His father would have sneered at these thugs and thieves, a disgraced soldier, a gambler who couldn't keep out of the red. But they were his first friends, his only friends, and Wylan knew that even if he'd had his pick of a thousand companions, these would have been the people he chose.”
    Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom



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