wandthief

“They tried to kill me, Hellie,” she rasped as she slid into the dark. That means I get to try to kill them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“Alex felt something dark inside her uncoil. “You’re a flat beast,” Hellie had once said to her. “Got a little viper lurking in there, ready to strike. A rattler probably.” She’d said it with a grin, but she’d been right.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“If Alex could have told Darlington anything, it would have been, Come back. She would have said it in English and Spanish. She would have used the imperative.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“You couldn’t keep sidling up to death and dipping your toe in. Eventually it grabbed your ankle and tried to pull you under.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House