Top 100 Quotes About Bardugo
#1. I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo
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#2. Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him.
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#3. I winced. "I shouldn't have said that." "You once put goose droppings in my shoes, Alina. A bad mood I can handle." He glanced at me and said, "We all know the burden you're carrying. You don't have to bear it alone." I
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#4. He knew exactly what he intended to leave behind when he was gone.
Damage.
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#5. Her voice was gentle, patient - why was it making him want to set fire to something?
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#6. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He'd become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel. The
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#7. 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.
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#8. No matter what they thought of him, they'd walk a little taller tonight. It was why they stayed, why they gave their best approximation of loyalty for him
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#9. Murderer!" I shouted "Monster!"
"All of those things.
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#10. Wylan blushed deeper, and Jesper shook his head. "Play piano, too?" "Flute," said Wylan defensively. "Perfect.
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#12. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same.
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#13. We all did our part to bring about the end of the world.
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#14. I know it comes easy, Geels, but try not to play dumb with me.
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#15. Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet.
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#16. From somewhere in the distance, we heard a rolling crack of thunder.
"He's coming," moaned one of the Inferni. "Oh, Saints, he's coming."
"He'll kill us all," whispered Sergei.
"If we're lucky," replied Zoya.
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#17. Maybe you're hungry," said Zoya. "I always get mean when I'm hungry.
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#18. Don't start doing that."
"What?"
"Agreeing with me," said Jesper. "Sure path to destruction.
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#19. Inej was always trying to wring little bits of decency from him.
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#20. Jesper gave him a little shake. "Pull it together, kid." "Not a kid," Wylan mumbled, batting Jesper's hands away. "Fine, you're an elder statesman. Do you know how to shoot?" Wylan nodded slowly. "Skeet.
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#21. You let Mal come back for me. After you gave me your vow."
"He broke away," said Tamar.
I lifted a brow. The day Mal could break Tolya's hold was indeed a day of miracles.
Tolya hung his head and heaved his huge shoulders. "Forgive me," he said. "I couldn't be the one to keep him from you.
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#22. I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.
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#23. She'd smiled. He'd smiled. She'd wanted to claw his face to shreds.
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#24. Inej's mother had told her that gifted wire walkers were descended from the People of the Air, that they'd once had wings, and that in the right light, those wings could still be glimpsed on the humans to whom they showed favor.
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#25. Sometimes a proper thief doesn't just take. He leaves something behind.
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#26. I will have you without armor. Those were the words she'd said to Kaz aboard the Ferolind, desperate for some sign that he might open himself to her, that they could be more than two wary creatures united by their distrust of the world.
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#27. When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.
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#28. Kaz didn't look remotely entertained. "The Ravkan king lets you negotiate for him in matters of state?" he asked skeptically.
"Occasionally," said Sturmhond. "Especially if less than savory personages are involved. You have a reputation, Mister Brekker."
"So do you.
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#29. You were an odd little girl."
"You have no idea. What did you and Toyla play with?"
"The skulls of our enemies.
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#31. Vasily laughed. "I can't decide if you're a fearmonger or a coward."
"And I can't decide if you're an idiot or an idiot.
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#32. Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
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#33. Street law dictated that for a parley of this kind each lieutenant be seconded by two of his foot soldiers and that they all be unarmed. Parley. The word felt like a deception - strangely prim, an antique. No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence.
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#34. The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.
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#35. You're the fool," Jesper snarled. "He's smarter than most of us put together, and he deserves a better father than you.
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#36. At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone.
"Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered.
"He doesn't say goodbye," Inej said. She kept her eyes on the lights of the canal. Somewhere in the garden, a night bird began to sing. "He just lets go.
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#37. Sunlight slanted through the windows, turning his eyes the color of strong tea.
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#39. You wouldn't know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth.
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#40. Next time I'll try getting captured. Just to keep things interesting." He tossed Mal a rifle. "Shall we?"
"I can't tell who's who!" I protested.
"We're the side that's hopelessly outnumbered.
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#41. No one got the better of Kaz. He was the toughest, scariest thing walking the alleys of the Barrel.
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#42. I need you to do something for me."
He snorted. "You mean other than deserting the army, scaling mountains, and freezing my ass off on the cold ground every night?"
"Yes.
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#43. I seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned.
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#44. I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.
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#45. He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he'll never have enough of her. Like he's trying to capture what he can before she's gone.
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#46. This was what Ravka did. It made orphans. It made misery. No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun.
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#48. We're not going in through the embassy,' said Kaz. 'Always hit where the mark isn't looking.'
'Who's Mark?' asked Wylan.
Jesper burst out laughing. 'Oh, Saints, you are something. The mark, the pigeon, the cosy, the fool you're looking to fleece.
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#49. There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us.
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#50. 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 wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen,
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#51. The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.
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#52. We're alive," he said at last.
"It seems you prayed to the right god."
"Or traveled with the right people.
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#53. The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them.
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#54. There is no one I want more; there is nothing I want more than to be overwhelmed by you.
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#55. They'd even made him imitate the different patterns of the bells. A necessity, but he'd felt like a fool chanting, Bing bong bing bing bong. No, wait, bing bing bong bing bing.
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#56. Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death.
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#57. Don't worry, Da. People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It's basically a handshake.
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#58. They sang together, fumbling through the verses, hopelessly out of key, until the lanterns burned low.
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#59. You must marry ugly man," I said. "Very fet." I held my arms out in front of me, indicating a giant belly. "He weeel make you heppy." I heard Mal snort beneath his mask.
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#60. There wasn't even a bed in the room, just a narrow settee where Nina curled up every night. When Kaz had asked Nina why, she'd simply said, "I don't want anyone getting ideas." "A man doesn't need a bed to get ideas, Nina.
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#63. It's simply a question of finding the right incentive. Pauper or prince, every man can be bought
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#65. How did you fare with the Queen?" he asked.
"I have no idea," I said honestly. "Everything she said was perfectly nice, but the whole time she was looking at me as if I were something her dog spit up.
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#66. Madam's spirits have been restored! The sun can once more shine!
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#67. (Some girl) "You said we'd have breakfast!"
(Jasper) "If i live, i'll buy you waffles."
"You don't have enough money to buy her waffles," Wylan grumbled.
"Be quite. We're in a library.
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#68. Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
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#69. The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.
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#70. I say we go down fighting." ... "We do the best we can.
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#71. She'd been so docile that Nina had become concerned. "Maybe she's not getting enough blood to her
brain?" she'd murmured to Matthias.
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#72. Alone in the gloom, surrounded by books, it was hard not to feel overwhelmed.
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#73. I will have you without armor or I will not have you at all.
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#74. It's a great honor," said Fedyor. "To save a life. You saved many.
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#75. Botkin cannot build house from such little twigs!" he shouted at me, giving my upper arm a squeeze. "Eat something!
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#76. You were meant to be my balance. What I felt for Mal was messy and stubborn and might leave me heartbroken in the end, but it was also human.
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#77. Always hit where the mark isn't looking"
"Who's Mark?" asked Wylan.
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#78. Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a unifiorm to do it?
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#79. I just know there's no way to live without pain
no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.
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#81. The living world had disappeared. Darkness fell around us, black, weightless, and absolute. We were in the Fold.
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#82. My mother was an oyster," he said with a wink. "And I'm the pearl.
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#84. I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn't have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.
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#85. He saw that Jesper was staring at his hands. "What were you expecting?" Kaz growled.
"Claws, at least,"Jesper said, shifting his gaze to his own bony feet. "Possibly a spiny thumb.
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#86. Nina is everything you say. It's too much."
"Mmm," Inej murmured, taking a sip from her mug. "Maybe you're just not enough.
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#87. She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman.
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#88. Zoya yelped. "That little brat just kicked me."
"Smart kid," said Mal.
I lifted a brow. "Smarter than some."
He had the good grace to blush.
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#90. Do you blame me for every mistake I made? For every girl I tumbled? For every dumb thing I've said? Because if we start running tallies on stupid, you know who's going to come out ahead.
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#91. You're very welcome, gorgeous. See, Kaz? That's how the civilized folk do.
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#92. Ivan gabbled something in Shu that I didn't understand. The giant just laughed.
"You speak Shu like a tourist," he said.
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#93. I wanted to say something comforting, something reassuring. But there were so many mistakes in my own past that I couldn't think of anything that wouldn't ring false.
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#94. You are all I've ever wanted," he said. "You are the whole of my heart.
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#95. Have you looked in a mirror lately?"
"I think you do that enough for the both of us.
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#96. Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.
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#97. I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals
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#98. Inej's mother and father might still shed tears for the daughter they'd lost, but if Inej died tonight, there would be no one to grieve for the girl she was now.
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#99. I will stip away all that you know, all that you love....
Until you have no shelter byt me
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#100. Kaz flexed his fingers in his gloves. How did you survive the Barrel? When they took everything from you, you found a way to make something from nothing.
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