sparsa majumder

“Nikolai winked at her. "If I had anyone but Genya Safin in charge, I might be worried."
Zoya rolled her eyes. "She doesn't need your flattery. She already thinks enough of herself."
"Let him go on," said Genya. "David never gives me pretty compliments."
"Don't I?" asked David. He patted his pocket absently. "I have the list of your good qualities you gave me somewhere."
"You see what I endure?”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Genya—” David tried.
“Don’t you dare,” she said roughly, tears welling up again. “You never looked at me twice before I was like this, before I was broken. Now I’m just something for you to fix.”
I was desperate for words to soothe her, but before I could find any, David bunched up his shoulders and said, “I know metal.”
“What does that have to do with anything?” Genya cried.
David furrowed his brow. “I … I don’t understand half of what goes on around me. I don’t get jokes or sunsets or poetry, but I know metal.” His fingers flexed unconsciously as if he were physically grasping for words. “Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what’s inside you? That’s steel. It’s brave and unbreakable. And it doesn’t need fixing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“When he looked at her, you could see that he had found his perfect equation.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I loved him and he loved me.' Was there any greater gift than that? Any more unlikely discovery in the world?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves