Siege And Storm Quotes

“I've seen what you truly are," said the Darkling, "and I've never turned away. I never will. Can he say the same?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.

Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

“Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I’m also Sturmhond, commander of the Volkvony, scourge of the True Sea.’
'Scourge?’
'Well, I’m vexing at the very least.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“In case you've forgotten, I tried to kill you."

"And failed."

"Here's to second chances.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“With a start, I realized that the room smelled like him. I had never even noticed that he had a scent. I shut my eyes and breathed deeply. What was it? The crisp edge of a winter wind. Bare branches. The smell of absence, the smell of night.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Not every man," I murmured.

Nikolai followed my gaze. "Yes, Alina, even your stalwart champion has his price." He turned back to me, his hazel eyes thoughtful. "And I suspect I'm looking at it right now.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You can't control the Fold. It has to be destroyed."

"Careful, Alina," he said with a slight smile. "I've had the same thought about you.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You're mad."

"I know it pleases you to think so.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“The Darkling had told her he was destined to rule. He had claimed his throne, and a part of her too. He was welcome to it. For the living and the dead, she would make herself a reckoning.
She would rise.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I'd like to think of myself as delightfully complex.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I'd like to free you," he said quietly.

"Free me, flay me. So many options.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“He sighed. "It was a threat, Alina. It accomplished what it needed to."

"So you wouldn't have cut me?"

"I didn't say that.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“It's madness, I told myself. He wouldn't dare attempt it. The thought brought me little comfort. He always dared.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You want," the Darkling mocked. I want to watch your tracker die slowly with my knife in his heart. I want to let the sea swallow you both. But our fates are entwined now, Alina, and there's nothing either of us can do about that.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Redemption," he murmured. "Salvation. Penance. My mother's quaint ideas. Perhaps I should have paid closer attention.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You're humoring me," he said with the hint of a grin.

"You require a lot of coddling.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Might want to leave him alone," Sturmhond said. "That type needs plenty of time for brooding and self-recrimination. Otherwise they get cranky.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“You come back to train with Botkin. I hit big girl same as little girl."
"That's very egalitarian of you." I said, and hurried Tamar out of the stables before Botkin decided to show me just how fair-minded he could be.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“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

“Show them weakness when they need to see it, never when you feel it.
-Nikolai Lantsov”
― Leigh Bardugo

“I was afraid to show doubt or indecision, and there were days when I felt like I was being torn down to nothing by the constant weight of responsibility and expectation." - Alina Starkov”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“A boy leans over me: ruddy hair, a broken nose. He reminds me of the too-clever fox, another one of Ana Kuya's stories, smart enough to get out of a one trap, but too foolish to realise he won't escape a second.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I was afraid to show doubt or indecision, and there were days when I felt like I was being torn down to nothing by the constant weight of responsibility and expectation.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry. Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“The Darkling will hunt you for the rest of your days." "then you and I will have something in common, won't we? Besides, I like to have powerful. Makes me feel important.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

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

“Tutto quello che vale la pena fare comincia sempre come una pessima idea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Do you practice being wonderful?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm