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“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

“Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I may not have been completely honest about that."
"You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?"
"Still old and blind," she snarled.
"And charming," Nikolai drawled. "Never forget charming."
"Whelp."
"Hag."
"What do you want, pest?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“And the Darkling?"
"I tried to kill him."
"As one does.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“It’s always been this way. There were rumors about me even before I was born. It’s why my mother never calls me Sobachka. She says it makes me sound like a mongrel.”
My heart gave a little pang at that. I’d been called plenty of names growing up.
“I like mongrels,” I said. “They have cute floppy ears.”
“My ears are very dignified.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“He roared at me furiously for ten minutes after he finally managed to put out the sulky and determined fire, calling me a witless muttonheaded spawn of pig farmers-"My father's a wood-cutter," I said- "adOf axe-swinging lummocks!" he snarled.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“He’d also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha’s daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn’t much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“Do none of you ever walk?' I asked, baffled.

'And how do you keep from getting all over mud?" she said.

We both looked down. I was a good two inches deep in mud along all the bottom of today's skirt: bigger around than a wagon-wheel and made of purple velvet and silver lace.

'I don't,' I said glumly.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“A life before you in the moment isn't worth a hundred elsewhere, three months from now.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“Success excuses all risks.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted