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“I want to kiss you,” he said.
“You already kissed me,” I replied with a nervous laugh.
A smile tugged at his lips. “I want to kiss you again,” he amended.
“Oh,” I breathed. His mouth was inches from mine. My heart leapt into a panicked gallop. This is Nikolai, I reminded myself. Pure calculation. I didn’t even think I wanted him to kiss me. But my pride was still smarting from Mal’s rejection. Hadn’t he said he’d kissed plenty of girls?
“I want to kiss you,” Nikolai said. “But I won’t. Not until you’re thinking of me instead of trying to forget him.”
I shoved backward and lurched awkwardly to my feet, feeling flushed and embarrassed.
“Alina—”
“At least now I know you don’t always say the right thing,” I muttered.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“It doesn’t matter what you are. It matters what you can do.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Once the river was loosed, it could not be called back.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Rietveld, his family name,”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows