Zoya's Quotes

#1. My name is Valentin Belrov. I have a sister called Inessa Belrov. I have a love called Zoya Kostava. They are being held captive. I have to set them free!

Tillie Cole

#2. Peaceful in the knowledge that a long and happy relationship negates the need for constant chatter. Zoya and I had long perfected the art of sitting silently in each other's company for hours on end, while never running out of things to say.

John Boyne

#3. Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.

Vincent Bugliosi

#4. Listen twice. Think Once. If a muthafucka shows you their flaw, believe 'em. That goes for family, too." Promise's

Zoya

#5. Come back home with me, Princess."
"Why?"
"I bought new glasess. And plates. There's nobody there to throw them at me.

Zoya Tessi

#6. To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

Robert Bateman

#7. Buddha wasn't the man everybody made him out to be. He wasn't the type of man who poured out the belief of there's no one higher than him. He just wanted to teach his people the importance of knowledge. Kind of like Elijah Muhammad.

Zoya

#8. Abruptly, Adrik snarled, 'I'm glad Sergei's dead. I'm just sorry I didn't get to wring his neck myself.'
'You'd need two hands for that,' said Zoya.
There was a brief, terrible silence, then Adrik scowled and said, 'Okay, stab him.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Terry McMillan

#10. I appreciated Aaliyah's artistry. We'll never have another like her.

Zoya

#11. I miss knowing what happens next.

Leigh Bardugo

#12. Many people aren't aware of the teachings of Elijah Muhammad who taught some of our most significant conscious, black thinkers of our times. "He

Zoya

#13. Sorry," I mumbled.
"Maybe you're hungry," said Zoya. "I always get mean when I'm hungry."
"Are you hungry all the time?" asked Harshaw.
"You haven't seen me mean. When you do, you'll require a very big hanky."
He snorted. "To dry my tears?"
"To stanch the bleeding.

Leigh Bardugo

#14. When love allows you to be who you are truly and deeply, the nakedness of the body holds no significant power to the attributes of the pureness of one's soul. Being able to connect to a person in a way where the bodies become one, the heart becomes one, and the souls become entangled as one. "When

Zoya

#15. Nina rested her chin atop Inej's silky hair. "Zoya used to say that fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return." (p188)

Leigh Bardugo

#16. Zoya picked up a kefta hanging over the back of my chair. It was gold brocade, the sleeves and hem embroidered lavishly in blue, the cuffs marked with jeweled sunbursts. "Sable," she said to me, stroking the lining. "I have never loathed you more.

Leigh Bardugo

#17. Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.

Uri Geller

#18. 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.

Leigh Bardugo

#19. Huh," Zoya said to Adrik. "I'm impressed." At the elation that burst over his face, she groaned. "Never mind. I'm downgrading that to grudging approval.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. The Panthays were a group of Chinese Muslims

Zoya

#21. Listen twice, but only think once. "I

Zoya

#22. If there was one thing Zoya had learned in life, it was that men always walked away from their responsibilities.

Ted Cross

#23. Toss his over," Zoya said. "Break his heart cruelly. I will gladly give our poor prince comfort, and I would make a magnificent queen."
I laughed. "You actually might, Zoya. If you could stop being horrible for a minute."
"With that kind of incentive, I can manage a minute. Possibly two.

Leigh Bardugo

#24. Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.

Peter Singer

#25. Zoya stared up at Nina in wonder. "You're alive," she said. Her gaze slid to Matthias, thrashing like the biggest, angriest butterfly ever pinned to a page. "And you've made a new friend.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person, you see. We are GeorgyandZoya.

John Boyne

#27. Has she at least done it before?" said Kaz. "For this purpose?" asked Sturmhond. "I've seen her do it twice. It worked splendidly. Once".

Leigh Bardugo

#28. We are the Triumvirate. We do not take orders from Kerch street rats with dubious haircuts.

Leigh Bardugo

#29. You didn't really think they were ghosts, did you?"
I blushed and Tolya cleared his throat. Zoya rolled her eyes and strode toward the hill. "I am surrounded by fools.

Leigh Bardugo

#30. It was moments like this that made me realize that love was just a feeling in which we all felt the need to desire, but if it wasn't reciprocated was it still love then? When it's so toxic but you hold on still, was it an addiction

Zoya

#31. 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.

Leigh Bardugo

#32. Yeah, a real nigga studies his woman. I

Zoya

#33. Maybe you're hungry," said Zoya. "I always get mean when I'm hungry.

Leigh Bardugo