Leigh Bardugo Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. (Tell me you know that). He needed her to say it. [...] He needed to know that she believed he could do this, [...] He needed to know she believed in him. Six of Crows

2. Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again Siege and Storm

3. Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I'll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want.""I don't need any of that. Just..." He dropped Nikolai's hand and looked away. "Deserve her. Ruin and Rising

4. Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?""Guns?" asked Jesper."Ships?" queried Inej."Bombs?" suggested Wylan. "Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered. Crooked Kingdom

5. He was going to break my legs, she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. Would you have come for me then, Kaz? When I couldn’t scale a wall or walk a tightrope? When I wasn’t the Wraith anymore?Dirtyhands would not. The boy who could get them through this, get their money, keep them alive, would do her the courtesy of putting her out of her misery, then cut his losses and move on.I would come for you, he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. I would 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. Crooked Kingdom

6. 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. Shadow and Bone

7. I have loved you all my life, Mal, I whispered through my tears. There is no end to our story. Siege and Storm

8. I would make you my queen because I want you. I want you all the time. Rule of Wolves

9. Isn't that what every girl dreamed? That she'd wake and find herself a princess? Or blessed with magical powers and a grand destiny. Maybe there were people who lived those lives, maybe this girl was one of them but what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns, we learn to ring magic from the ordinary, that's how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal bloods in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway. Crooked Kingdom

10. Jesper: If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.Kaz: I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.Matthias: My ghost won’t associate with your ghost. Six of Crows

11. Kaz knew it, and for some reason he loved to rile her. He wished he could read her expression now. There was always something so satisfying about the little furrow between her black brows. Six of Crows

12. Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

13. No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck Six of Crows

14. The blood you spill is the blood of kings, seethed Dunyasha. You are not fit for such a gift.[...]Inej raised a brow and slowly wiped the blood of kings on her trousers Crooked Kingdom

15. The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true. Six of Crows

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

17. The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true. Ruin and Rising

18. 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. Shadow and Bone

19. They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that. Ruin and Rising

20. 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. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

21. This is what love does. In the stories, love healed your wounds, fixed what was broken, allowed you to go on. But love wasn’t a spell, some kind of benediction to be whispered, a balm or a cure-all. It was a single, fragile thread, which grew stronger through connection, through shared hardship and trust. Rule of Wolves

22. Truth means something different when it's given freely. Wonder Woman: Warbringer

23. Where are you going?" she called after me, her voice mocking. "What's waiting for you out there?" "Nothing!" I shouted at her. "No one! Shadow and Bone

24. Who enforces the laws?" Zoya asked softly. "Rich men. Rich men who do what they wish. Power doesn't make a man wise.""I'm proof enough of that.""You're occasionally a useless podge. But you're a good man, Nikolai, and a good king. Rule of Wolves

25. Wylan drew himself up. I may not have had your … education, but I’m sure I know plenty of words that you don’t.Also the proper way to fold a napkin and dance a minuet. Oh, and you can play the flute. Marketable skills, merchling. Marketable skills.No one dances the minuet any more, grumbled Wylan. Six of Crows

26. A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

27. But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood. The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

28. Everyone mourns the first blossom. Who will grieve the rest who fall? King of Scars

29. Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in. Ruin and Rising

30. I will always seek to make it summer for you. Rule of Wolves