Leigh Bardugo

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns y...”

“And what god do you serve, then?” “Whichever will grant me good fortune.” “I don’t think gods work that way.” “I don’t think I care.”

“Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent.”

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”

“To live is to grieve.”

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”

“Better terrible truths than kind lies.”

““Greed is your god, Kaz." He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.””

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

“Women don't want to be seduced. They want to be seen and listened to. You can't do either of those things if you're thinking up strategies on how to win her over.”

“Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall?”

““You don’t look like a monster.” “I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters.””

“Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.”

“We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.”

“Stop punishing yourself for being someone with a heart.”

“She laughed. And if he could've bottled up the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have.”

“Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”

“There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?” I shook my head, inching away from him. “Faith,” he breathed, his black eyes wild. “Faith.”

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”

“You cannot worry about what came before or what happens next, what has been lost or what you might gain. There is only this moment.”

“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”

“Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)”

“They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on the other side of the sea.”

“This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.”

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.”

“Truth means something different when it's given freely.”

“Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”

“I believe ... I believe that if there was a start to this, then there has to be an end.”

“Dangling form the trap's steel teeth by his wounded leg, a lesser creature might have closed his eyes and prayed for nothing more than a quick death. But if Koja had words then he had hope.”

“But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.”

“A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.”

“Danny spent most of his time at the museum or in his room with the door locked, lost in books he consumed like a flame eating air, trying to stay alight.”

“You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are.”

“Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”

“"Who'd deny a poor cripple his cane?" "If the cripple is you, then any man with sense."”

“He needed to tell her... What? That she was lovely and brave and better then anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked and wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her.”

“Be the thing they all fear when they close their eyes at night.”

“For the briefest moment, Ulla despised Signy, as we can only hate those who rescue us from loneliness.”

“Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn’t like the weather, you didn’t rush into the storm—you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet.”

“The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.”

“Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.”

““Our hopes rest with you, Mister Brekker. If you fail, all the world will suffer for it." "Oh, it's worse than that, Van Eck. If I fail, I don't get paid.””

“I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”

“Kaz Brekker didn't need a reason. Those were the words whispered on the streets.”