Hanne Brum Quotes

“I'll tell you a thousand stories, my love. We'll write the new endings, one by one.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“You are my prince and you have my heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“And you will be my queen." Hanne's shy glance pierced Nina - sudden light, too bright after so much darkness. "If you'll have me.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I think strong men show strength, but great men show strength tempered by compassion”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Do you know the only time I felt beautiful?” Hanne asked, her eyes still
closed.
“When?”
“When I tailored myself to look like a soldier. When we cut off all my
hair.”
Nina exchanged the shimmer for a pot of rose balm. “But you didn’t look
like you.”
Hanne’s eyes opened. “But I did. For the first time. The only time.”
Nina dipped her thumb into the pot of balm and dabbed it onto Hanne’s lower lip, spreading it in a slow sweep across the soft cushion of her mouth.
“I can grow my hair, you know,” Hanne said, and moved her hand over one side of her scalp. Sure enough, a reddish-brown curl twined over Hanne’s ear.
Nina stared. “That’s powerful tailoring, Hanne.”
“I’ve been practicing.” She drew small scissors from a drawer and snipped away the curl. “But I like it the way it is.”
“Then leave it.” Nina took the scissors from her hand, brushed her thumb over Hanne’s knuckles. “In trousers. In gowns. With your hair shorn or in braids or down your back. You have never not been beautiful.”
“Do you mean that?”
“I do.”
“I’ve never seen your real face,” Hanne said, eyes scanning Nina’s features. “Do you miss it?”
Nina wasn’t sure how to answer. For a long while she’d startled every time she glimpsed herself in the mirror, when she caught sight of the pale blue eyes, the silky fall of straight blond hair. But the longer she played Mila, the easier it became, and sometimes that scared her. Who will I be when I return to Ravka? Who am I now?
“I’m beginning to forget what I looked like,” she said. “But trust me, I was
gorgeous.”
Hanne took her hand. “You still are.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Ready?” she asked.
Nina clutched the rope. “To be lowered like a sack of flour into the heart of witchhunter power?”
“This was your idea. We can still turn around.”
“Do not second-guess the sack of flour. The sack of flour is wise beyond her years.”
Hanne rolled her eyes and braced her feet against the edge of the roof, and Nina stepped out into nothing. Hanne released a grunt, but the rope stayed steady. Slowly, she lowered Nina down.
The first two windows she tried were locked tight, but the third gave way and she wiggled inside, landing on the carpeted floor with a thud. She was in a stairway. For a moment, she couldn’t orient herself, but she descended another story, and soon she was at the door to Brum’s office. This time, she didn’t have a key. It had been too risky to steal it again, so she would have to pick the lock. It took an embarrassingly long time. She could almost hear Kaz laughing at her. Shut up, Brekker. Talk to me when you’ve done something about that terrible haircut. Maybe he had by now. She hoped so for Inej’s sake.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Hanne hesitated. "Can you love me in this body?"
"It is your heart I love. You know that, don't you?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“What if I told you there's a rightness in this body? That ever since I understood what tailoring could do, I haven't been able to stop thinking about what might be?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“There were battles ahead, dangers she and Hanne would have to face. What they were attempting was audacious, maybe impossible, but somehow she knew they would manage it. Nina rested her cheek against Hanne’s. She’d honored Matthias, and this path, somewhere between revenge and redemption, was the right one. My place is with the wolves.
Nina sat up straight. “Hanne, what do I call you now? Rasmus?”
Hanne shuddered. “I can’t stand that. We’ll have to choose a new name. A Saint’s name. To honor the prince’s newfound faith in the Children of Djel.”
“All Saints, you’re a quick learner. That’s a politician’s move.”
“But we have to pick a good one.”
“How about Demyan? Or Ilya? He was famous. And he changed the world.”
Her prince smiled. “I don’t know the story.”
“I’ll tell it to you,” Nina said. Outside, night was falling and the sky was full of stars. “I’ll tell you a thousand stories, my love. We’ll write the new endings, one by one.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Sickness is sickness," said Hanne. "It's not something to fear.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I taught her to lie and feign compliance. I took a wild thing and showed her how to wear a leash.
- Nina Zenik (Mila Jandersdat?)”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Ravka made me a soldier. Ketterdam made me a spy. Hanne can help me become something else entirely. [...]
They would build a new world together. But first they had to burn the old one down.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“In trousers. In gowns. With your hair shorn or in braids or down your back. You have never not been beautiful.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Can you love me in this body?
It is your heart I love. You know that, don’t you?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“They would build a new world together.
But first they had to burn the old one down.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars