Tamar Kir Bataar Quotes

“None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Yuyeh sesh,” Tolya called after her in Shu.
“Ni weh sesh,” she shouted over her shoulder. And then she was gone.
“What does that mean?”
“It’s something our father taught us,” Tolya replied. “Yuyeh sesh: ‘despise your heart.’ But that’s the direct translation. The real meaning is more like ‘do what needs to be done—be cruel if you have to.’”
“What’s the other part?”
“Ni weh sesh? ‘I have no heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Everyone mourns the first blossom,
Who will weep for the rest that fall?
I will remain to sing for you,
Long after the spring has gone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“We’d move faster without you.”

“I’ll keep up,” Genya countered.

“See that you do,” said Mal. “We’ll be entering an area crawling with militias, not to mention the Darkling’s oprichniki. You’re recognizable,” he said to Genya. “So is Tolya, for that matter.” Tamar’s lips twitched. “Would you like to be the one to tell him he can’t come?”

Mal considered this. “Maybe we can disguise him as a really big tree.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“True,” said Nikolai. “But they know what you are too, Sankta Zoya.”
“Do not call me that.”
“It has a nice ring to it,” said Tamar.
“Our Lady of Dragonfire?” Suggested Nadia.
“Sweet scaly vengeance?” Said Genya.
Zoya turned her back on all of them and strode towards the tents. “I’m going to go live in a cave.”
― Leigh Bardugo , Rule of Wolves

“I hope you’re all enjoying yourselves.”
Tamar hooked a scarf over Nadia’s neck and drew her in for a kiss.
“Oh, for Saints’ sake,” complained Zoya. “Is everyone pairing up now?”
Genya snickered. “Take heart. I’ve seen Stigg casting mournful glances your way.”
“He’s Fjerdan,” Zoya said. “That’s the only kind of glance he has. And I can arrange my own assignations, thank you very much.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon kind or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.
But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
For the survivors then, Zoya whispered to herself as the people before her knelt and chanted her name. And for the lost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“„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

“I can have hope in my heart and a blade in my hand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“He's a warrior," she'd said. "If you make him believe he's less now, he'll never know he can be more.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“I may peruse the gaudy wares, but I recognize true quality when I see it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I find it is my own life that worries me the most.
That only means you're a survivor. And that's nothing to be ashamed of.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves