Darkling's Quotes

#1. Don't worry, tracker. You'll know when our deal is up ... I'll be certain you hear it when I make her scream. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#2. I've never understood this taste for otkazat'sya. Is it because you thought you were one of them for so long?"
"I had a taste for you, once." His head snapped up. He hadn't expected that. Saints, it was satisfying. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#3. I got used to seeing him waiting for me at the end of corridors, or sitting at the edge of my bed when I fell asleep at night. When he didn't appear, I sometimes found myself looking for him or wondering why he hadn't come, and that frightened me most of all. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#4. I'm not what you think I am," I whispered desperately.
The Darkling stepped closer to me and said, his voice so low that only I could hear, "I doubt you have any idea what you are. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#5. I am ancient Alina.
I know things about power that you can barely guess - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#6. Surrender your expectations. Surrender your doubts.
Surrender your fears. Surrender your strengths.
Surrender your anger. Surrender your control. - Author: Yasmine Galenorn

#7. That was indeed to live
at one bold swoop to wrest from darkling death the best that death to life can give. - Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#8. And the Darkling?"
"I tried to kill him."
"As one does. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#9. You were meant to be my balance Aline.
You are the only person in the world who might rule with me, who might keep my powers in check - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#10. Will you say it?

"Aleksander"

His grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker.

"Again."

"Aleksander - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#11. What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche? - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#12. The problem with waiting is that it makes us weak - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#13. that darkling brightness which falls from the stars. - Author: Pierre Corneille

#14. The Darkling just stared out into the waves. I considered shoving him over the railing. Sure, he was hundreds of years old, but could he swim? - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#15. You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#16. It's true," I said softly. "You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience." I leaned forward and whispered, my lips brushing the shell of his ear. "But I am an apt pupil. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#17. And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
- Author: Matthew Arnold

#18. I've waged the war you forced me to, Alina," said the Darkling. "If you hadn't run from me, the Second Army would still be intact. All those Grisha would still be alive. Your tracker would be safe and happy with his regiment. When will it be enough? When will you let me stop? - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#19. How could he be so cruel and still so human? - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#20. Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair. - Author: Edith M. Thomas

#21. A single laugh burst from his lips, and a fin spray of blood settled over his chin. "Like this?"
His legs faltered. He tried to stop his descent, but his arm gave way and he crumpled, rolling to his back. It's simple enough. Like calls to like. The Darkling's own power. Morozova's own blood. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#22. I've been busy. I might have some surprises in store for the Darkling yet."
"Please tell me you plan to dress up as a volcra and jump out of a cake."
"Well, now you've ruined the surprise. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#23. The Darkling slumped back in his chair. "Fine," he said with a weary shrug. "Make me your villain. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#24. Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
Is that thou utterest while all else is still
The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream! - Author: William C. Bryant

#25. You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#26. Then the memory of the Darkling's kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my thoughts like leaves and making my heart swoop and dive like a bird borne aloft by uncertain currents. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#27. Fight me as long as you're able.
You will find I have far more practice with eternity - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#28. Tell him you see me when he takes you in his arms - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#29. The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, "is that it makes us weak. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#30. He'd wanted me to believe in his ruthlessness.
Then I remembered his words from so long ago: Make me your villain. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#31. The sound he'd taken for an engine hum? The rowers chanting while a drummer kept the beat. "Row, row, row the boat, toward the Darkling Sea. And there we'll find some fucking fish, and have a killing spree." Each time they sang a verse, they cheered. A berserker army on its way to glory. - Author: Eve Langlais

#32. We all have our secrets. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#33. I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#34. I will stip away all that you know, all that you love....
Until you have no shelter byt me - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#35. You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#36. You begged me for clemency once," he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. "Is this your idea of mercy?"
Another bullet hit the sand, only inches from us. Yes, I thought as the power rose up inside me, the mercy you taught me. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#37. Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?
You called me and I answered - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#38. You sound just like the Darkling."
"If you ever have trouble telling us apart, look for the person who isn't torturing you or trying to kill Mal. That will be me. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#39. The stag had been showing me my strength-not just the price of mercy but the power it bestowed. And mercy was something the Darkling would never understand. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#40. I knew there was no bottom to the Darkling's pain. He would just keep falling and falling. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#41. In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#42. I don't care if you think I'm a Saint or a fool or the Darkling's whore. If you want to remain at the Little Palace you will follow me. And if you don't like it, you will be gone by tonight, or I will have you in chains. I am a solider. I am the Sun Summoners. And I'm the only chance you have. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#43. I've seen what you truly are," said the Darkling, "and I've never turned away. I never will. Can he say the same? - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#44. I seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#45. Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#46. I didn't have to stand here in the darkling arms. I could vanish from his grip, slide back into consciousness and the safety of a stone room hidden in the mountaintop. But I didn't want to go. Despite, everything, I wanted this whispered confidence .
"Yes." I breathed. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#47. I want you to know my name.
The name I was given, not the title I took for myself.
Will you have it?

"Yes"

"Aleksander - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#48. I've been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said. "You and I are going to change the world. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#49. He studied me for a long moment. He had always watched me this way, as if I were an equation that didn't quite tally. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#50. It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. I felt it then, the vibration along that invisible tether. I pushed away from it. I would not go to the Darkling now. I wouldn't go to him ever again. But still, I knew wherever he was, he was grieving. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#52. Don't feel too bad, tracker," said the Darkling. "All men can be made fools. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#53. I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#54. I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it? - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#55. So I'm the Darkling's prisoner?"
"You're under his protection."
"What's the difference?"
"Pray you never find out. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#56. He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you. - Author: Leigh Bardugo

#57. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space. - Author: George Gordon Byron