Tamar Kir Baatar Quotes

“I’ll call it a victory.”
“Then enjoy it,” Tolya said, climbing atop his huge gelding.
“People only say that when they know it won’t last.”
“Of course it won’t last,” said Zoya. “What does?”
“True love?” suggested Tamar.
“Great art?” said Tolya.
“A proper grudge,” replied Zoya”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Go easy, Harshaw," said Tamar. "We need you awake tomorrow."

He groaned. "Why do battles always have to be so early?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Your heart is in your eyes, Your Highness,” murmured Tamar, wiping the sweat from her brow.
Tolya poked his twin in the arm with a sparring sword. “Tamar knows because that’s the way she looks at her wife.”
“I am free to look at my wife any which way I please.”
“But Zoya is not Nikolai’s wife.”
“I’m standing right here,” said Nikolai. “And there is nothing in my eyes except the never-ending dust you two kick up.”
He was glad to see his general. There was nothing out of the ordinary about that. Her presence brought a perfectly understandable relief, a feeling of calm that came with knowing that whatever the problem was, they would best it, that if one of them faltered, the other would be there to drag them along. That comfort was not something he could afford to get used to or rely
on, but he would enjoy it while he might. If only she weren’t wearing that damned blue ribbon again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Tolya swept me up in his huge arms.
“Our sister,” he explained to the curious guard.
“Our sister?” hissed Tamar as we entered the royal barracks. “She doesn’t look anything like us. Remind me never to let you work intelligence.”
“I have better things to do than trade in whispers,” he said with dignity. “Besides, she is our sister.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“If they're smugglers, I don't know any of them."
"I could follow," said Tolya.
"Why don't I just go do a waltz in the middle of the road?" Tamar taunted. Tolya was hardly quiet on his feet.
"I'm getting better," Tolya said defensively. "Besides-"
Mal silenced them with a look. " Do not pursue, do not engage."
As Mal led us deeper into the trees, Tolya grumbled, " You don't even know how to waltz.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising