Nikolai Lantsov Quotes

#1. What are you two doing barefoot and half naked in the mud?" asked a familiar voice. "Looking for truffles, I hope?

Leigh Bardugo

#2. Not bad looking? He's damnably handsome. Brave in battle, smart as a whip. An excellent dancer, oh, and an even better shot.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. Ravka is grateful for your service," Sturmhond said as they turned to go. "And so is the crown." He waved once. In the late afternoon light, with the sun behind him, he looked less like a privateer and more like... but that was just silly.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. I took a breath. "Your highness - "
"Nikolai," he corrected. "But I've also been known to answer to 'sweetheart' or 'handsome.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. Confuse your trail, lose your trail.

Vikas Swarup

#6. I hope you weren't looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had.

Joe Dempsie

#8. Do good works or commission an opera house or just take it out and gaze at it longingly when you think of the handsome prince you might have made your own. For the record, I favor the latter option, preferably paired with copious tears and the recitation of bad poetry.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.

Albert Einstein

#10. Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.

Pat Williams

#11. The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#12. A privateer learns to press any advantage."
"And a prince?"
"Princes get used to the word yes.

Leigh Bardugo

#13. We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

Leigh Bardugo

#14. Some night soon, I'll sneak back in here and we can eat chocolates until we vomit."
"We're such refined, genteel ladies."
"Please," Lysandra said, waving a manicured hand, "you and I are nothing but wild beasts wearing human skins. Don't even try to deny it.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Imagination is heavenly.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Who says that tradition cannot be changed? The traditions which go against the human values has to be changed, otherwise it is like a poisonous snake that is hanging on our neck to kill us.

Pratibha Ray

#17. I'm used to being the center of attention wherever I go. I've been told I could charm the shoes off a racehorse midstride, and yet you seem impervious.

Leigh Bardugo

#18. Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep.

Roshani Chokshi