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I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more. By Leigh Bardugo

I prick him, you bleed. By Leigh Bardugo

She was Inej Ghafa, and she would not quiver like a rabbit in a snare. By Leigh Bardugo

You're my son, Jesper. I can't protect you. Maybe I shouldn't have tried. But I will be there even when you falter. Every time. By Leigh Bardugo

You had a home, and you put a wrecking ball through the front door. Don't look for sympathy from me. By Leigh Bardugo

I make it a policy never to seduce anyone prettier than I am."I laughed. "I think that was an insult. By Leigh Bardugo

No mourners," Jesper said as he tossed his rifle to Rotty. "No funerals," the rest of the Dregs murmured in reply. By Leigh Bardugo

And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted.""That's hardly limiting," he said. By Leigh Bardugo

Matthias rolled his eyes heavenward. These lunatics all needed a solid six months in boot camp and possibly a sound beating. By Leigh Bardugo

There's always more.""More money, more mayhem, more scores to settle. Was there never another dream? By Leigh Bardugo

She could smell the storm on him, like the lightning had followed him home, like he was made of the same dense rain clouds. By Leigh Bardugo

It's a great honor," said Fedyor. "To save a life. You saved many. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm already harboring fugitives. If I'm going to aid,I may as well abet. By Leigh Bardugo

Scheming face," Inej murmured. Jesper nodded. "Definitely. By Leigh Bardugo

Who'd deny a poor criple his cane?If the cripple is you, then any man with sense. By Leigh Bardugo

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 By Leigh Bardugo

Thanks for being my best friend and making my life bearable. Oh, and sorry I fell in love with you for a while there. By Leigh Bardugo

There are no good men in Ketterdam, Kaz said. And then he'd simply let go. By Leigh Bardugo

I wonder sometimes how much we really understand our own gifts. By Leigh Bardugo

We're giving them hope. That's better than nothing.''Spoken like a man who's never had nothing,' I said, and wheeled my horse away. By Leigh Bardugo

You can keep your damn scenery. All I want is a warm bed and a glass of wine. By Leigh Bardugo

What is infinite?" she recited. I knew that text well. "The universe and the greed of men," I quoted back to her. By Leigh Bardugo

We were all supposed to make it. By Leigh Bardugo

Do I get to wear a fancy hat?""The fanciest," I said. "And possibly a cape.""Will there be plumes?""Oh, yes. Several.""Then I'm in. By Leigh Bardugo

Back at the treasury Matthias had said, He's one of us. She liked that word. Us. A word without division or borders. It seemed full of hope. By Leigh Bardugo

You love trickery.""I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue. By Leigh Bardugo

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

The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the hopeful girl I would never be again. By Leigh Bardugo

Botkin cannot build house from such little twigs!" he shouted at me, giving my upper arm a squeeze. "Eat something! By Leigh Bardugo

What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche? By Leigh Bardugo

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

My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor. And my father is profit. I honor him daily. By Leigh Bardugo

You came back for me." "I protect my investments." Investments. "I'm glad I'm bleeding all over your shirt. By Leigh Bardugo

Any other impossible feats you'd like us to accomplish?"The barest smile flickered over Kaz's lips, "I'll make you a list. By Leigh Bardugo

The world is changing," said Nikolai, the steel edge emerging in his voice. "We change with it, or there will be nothing to remember us but dust. By Leigh Bardugo

Just waiting, hoping that you'd miss me enough to tell them all to go to hell. By Leigh Bardugo

If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution. By Leigh Bardugo

They're all crazy, Oncat. Invisible armies, monster princes. Let's go set fire to something. By Leigh Bardugo

Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste. By Leigh Bardugo

You move forward, and when you falter, you get up. And when you can't, you let us carry you. You let me carry you. By Leigh Bardugo

And what did you do, Matthias? What did you do to me in you dreams?""Everything," he said, as he turned to go, "Everything. By Leigh Bardugo

Remember what we've been through. Remember what we came here for. By Leigh Bardugo

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

They're in trouble, Kaz had thought. Or you were dead wrong about Matthias, and you're about to pay for all of those talking tree jokes. By Leigh Bardugo

He'd known even then, though: He'd start as a grunt, but the Dregs would become his army. By Leigh Bardugo

You still may die in the Dregs."Inej's dark eyes had glinted. "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand. By Leigh Bardugo

I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all. By Leigh Bardugo

Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain. By Leigh Bardugo

What doesn't kill me better run. - Kaz By Leigh Bardugo

Maybe your stay in Hellgate was too short, Matthias. There's always more to lose. By Leigh Bardugo

He had become a great beast, and yet that beast would devour him By Leigh Bardugo

Her silks were feathers, and she was free. By Leigh Bardugo

Farvell," she said in Fjerdan. "May Djel watch over you until I can once more. By Leigh Bardugo

We'll be Kings and Queens, Inej. Kings and Queens. By Leigh Bardugo

Matthias locked the cell door and hurried down the passage toward Nina, toward something more. By Leigh Bardugo

A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him. By Leigh Bardugo

And what god do you serve, then?""Whichever will grant me good fortune." "I don't think gods work that way." "I don't think I care. By Leigh Bardugo

A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. By Leigh Bardugo

I don't know what's wrong with me. it's just so easier to kill people than take care of them goodreads six of crows By Leigh Bardugo

Close your eyes!""You can't kiss me from down there, Wylan." "Just do it! By Leigh Bardugo

Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too. By Leigh Bardugo

No one got the better of Kaz. He was the toughest, scariest thing walking the alleys of the Barrel. By Leigh Bardugo

It was a calculated risk." "It was cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best. Believe me, I know the difference. By Leigh Bardugo

She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again. By Leigh Bardugo

You can only sharpen a blade so far", Kaz said as he joined them at the front of the church. "In the end, it comes down to the quality of the metal. By Leigh Bardugo

And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk. By Leigh Bardugo

He has served countless kings, faked countless deaths, bided his time, waiting for you. By Leigh Bardugo

You weeel catch the korpa." "The what?" "The korpa!" I declared in dire tones. "Your private parts weeel shrink to nothink! By Leigh Bardugo

She's like a dessert-hoarding dragon." Alys By Leigh Bardugo

Aleksander."His eyes fluttered shut. "Don't let me be alone," he murmured. And then he was gone. By Leigh Bardugo

I feel you slipping away from me, and I don't know how to stop it. By Leigh Bardugo

Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

Tell me, priest,' I ordered, 'or I'll cut you open right here, and your followers can try to pray you back together. By Leigh Bardugo

Do you answer a question directly?""Hard to say. Ah, there, I've done it again By Leigh Bardugo

Dirtyhands had come to see the rough work done. By Leigh Bardugo

You're the fool," Jesper snarled. "He's smarter than most of us put together, and he deserves a better father than you. By Leigh Bardugo

And the Darkling?""I tried to kill him.""As one does. By Leigh Bardugo

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

Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea. By Leigh Bardugo

Perfect night for tearing a hole in the universe, no? By Leigh Bardugo

Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him. By Leigh Bardugo

No, Tolya, your gifts lie elewhere," Sturmhond said soothingly. "Mostly in the celebrated fields of killing and maiming. By Leigh Bardugo

Thanks for the rescue.""Everyone needs a hobby.""I thought yours was preening.""Two hobbies. By Leigh Bardugo

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". By Leigh Bardugo

You'll still make a great king.""Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft. By Leigh Bardugo

I don't think-""Clearly. Why start now? By Leigh Bardugo

I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and maybe that was enough. By Leigh Bardugo

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true. By Leigh Bardugo

If you want to know something about me, lovely, all you need to do is ask. By Leigh Bardugo

We didn't draw anything," she said as she stepped through the door. "We volunteered." * By Leigh Bardugo

He doesn't need a donkey," says Ana Kuya. "He has a wife. By Leigh Bardugo

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings? By Leigh Bardugo

For my country," she said. "For my people. For every child you put to the pyre. Reap what you've sown, Jarl Brum. By Leigh Bardugo

Barrel boys don't have parents. We're born in the harbour and crawl out of the canals. By Leigh Bardugo

See you in Djerholm harbour," Specht called. "No mourners." "No funerals," the others replied. Strange people. By Leigh Bardugo

You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand. By Leigh Bardugo

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 By Leigh Bardugo

You were meant for more than me, and I'll die fighting to give it to you. But please don't ask me to pretend it's easy. By Leigh Bardugo

If you ever cared about me at all, don't follow. By Leigh Bardugo

I'd learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see. By Leigh Bardugo

I will stip away all that you know, all that you love....Until you have no shelter byt me By Leigh Bardugo

You couldn't train a falcon , then expect it not to hunt. By Leigh Bardugo

Nina, I am with you because you let me be with you. There is no greater honor than to stand by your side. By Leigh Bardugo

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 By Leigh Bardugo

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo By Leigh Bardugo

You'll get what's coming to you some day, Brekker.""I will," said Kaz, "if there's any justice in the world. And we all know how likely that is. By Leigh Bardugo

The deal was only for kicking. It did not prohibit slapping, punching, biting or cutting you in half. By Leigh Bardugo

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

I shivered in my kefta, comforted by the soft brush of the fox fur. By Leigh Bardugo

Rich men want to believe they deserve every penny they've got, so they forget what they owe to chance. By Leigh Bardugo

Don't start doing that.""What?""Agreeing with me," said Jesper. "Sure path to destruction. By Leigh Bardugo

I already unleashed Baghra on Nikolai. He's going to think I stockpile vicious old women. By Leigh Bardugo

Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it. By Leigh Bardugo

So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces. By Leigh Bardugo

He'd expected more complaints, but even Wylan had simply put his head down and walked. They're all survivors, Matthias understood. They adapt. By Leigh Bardugo

You're very welcome, Nina Zenik. You may repay me in the customary way." "Waffles?" "Lots of them. By Leigh Bardugo

Nina is everything you say. It's too much.""Mmm," Inej murmured, taking a sip from her mug. "Maybe you're just not enough. By Leigh Bardugo

I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina," he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home. By Leigh Bardugo

He didn't mean to say it. He meant to let her go. "I can help you. By Leigh Bardugo

Do not be afraid. Fear is how they control you. There's so much in the world you don't have to be afraid of, if you would only open your eyes. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

You were like a stranger, Alina. Beautiful," he said. "Terrible. By Leigh Bardugo

Kaz narrowed his eyes. I'm not some character out of a children's story who plays harmless pranks and steals from the rich to give to the poor. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

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

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. By Leigh Bardugo

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm mad at you, too." "Me? Why?" "I don't know yet. I just am." Inej By Leigh Bardugo

What you want and what the world needs are not always in accord, Kaz. Praying and wishing are not the same thing. By Leigh Bardugo

I want to kiss you," Nikolai said. "But I won't. Not until you're thinking of me instead of trying to forget him. By Leigh Bardugo

The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive. By Leigh Bardugo

If I see a single scratch or nick on those, I'll spell forgive me on your chest in bullet holes. By Leigh Bardugo

She's worth it. And one day maybe she'll let me chase her into a chapel. By Leigh Bardugo

David knew we were meeting in the Kettle," said Genya," and he guessed about the master flue."David frowned. "I don't guess. By Leigh Bardugo

No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all. By Leigh Bardugo

You don't want to be doing this.This is the only thing I want to be doing By Leigh Bardugo

Tell him you see me when he takes you in his arms By Leigh Bardugo

Will you say it?"Aleksander"His grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker."Again.""Aleksander By Leigh Bardugo

I am ancient Alina.I know things about power that you can barely guess By Leigh Bardugo

You will always be one of us. By Leigh Bardugo

Whether I was a Saint or a queen or the most powerful Grisha who ever lived, I would always turn to him. By Leigh Bardugo

Fight me as long as you're able.You will find I have far more practice with eternity By Leigh Bardugo

I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

Gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. Inej By Leigh Bardugo

We all have our secrets. By Leigh Bardugo

In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. By Leigh Bardugo

Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won't you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat? By Leigh Bardugo

I trade in information, Geels, the things men do when they think no one is looking. Shame holds more value than coin ever can. By Leigh Bardugo

Usually people don't start hating each other until a week into the job, but you two have a head start. By Leigh Bardugo

I will return more powerful than before. You are my eyes. You are my fists. You are my swords. By Leigh Bardugo

She rested her head on his shoulder. "You're better than waffles, Matthias Helvar." A By Leigh Bardugo

most of them confused tourists who weren't sure why strange men were yelling at them from a gondel. It By Leigh Bardugo

Purpose," he said thoughtfully. "You know you can't stop them all.'"If I don't try, I won't stop any. By Leigh Bardugo

We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen. By Leigh Bardugo

Nina just liked to flirt with everything. He'd once seen her make eyes at a pair of shoes she fancied in a shop window. By Leigh Bardugo

Normal people don't wall their wives up in insane asylums. They don't disinherit their sons because they didn't get the child they wanted. By Leigh Bardugo

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable. By Leigh Bardugo

Her voice was gentle, patient - why was it making him want to set fire to something? By Leigh Bardugo

A moment later the boy whispered, "I don't think you're ugly.""Shhhh!" the girl hissed. But hidden by the deep shadows of the cupboard, she smiled By Leigh Bardugo

I was just a girl again, but this girl didn't owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I'd been born with my power; the rest I'd earned. By Leigh Bardugo

It felt like something that was meant to be kept secret, a new seed that might grow to something extraordinary if it wasn't forced to bloom too soon. By Leigh Bardugo

Though he'd trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with his shame By Leigh Bardugo

Sunlight slanted through the windows, turning his eyes the color of strong tea. By Leigh Bardugo

It's a vow that if I can't be anything else to you, at least I can be a weapon in your hand. By Leigh Bardugo

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. By Leigh Bardugo

We are not witches. We are practitioners of the Small Science. We keep this country and this kingdom safe. By Leigh Bardugo

The heart is an arrow. By Leigh Bardugo

We didn't quite fit together. We had edges so jagged we cut each other sometimes, By Leigh Bardugo

He's horrible.""But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot. By Leigh Bardugo

They sang together, fumbling through the verses, hopelessly out of key, until the lanterns burned low. By Leigh Bardugo

Just to be clear, I'm not really interested in defending your honor. By Leigh Bardugo

Facts are for the unimaginative. By Leigh Bardugo

Wylan blushed deeper, and Jesper shook his head. "Play piano, too?" "Flute," said Wylan defensively. "Perfect. By Leigh Bardugo

You don't look like a monster." "I'll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monsters never look like monsters. By Leigh Bardugo

Be decisive, he'd say. You have to know where you want to go before you get there. By Leigh Bardugo

People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it. By Leigh Bardugo

I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified. By Leigh Bardugo

You're passable at demo. You're excellent at hostage. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

Promise not to kick me again, and I'll promise not to kiss you again," he said. "I only kicked you because you kissed me! By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

If you two keep fighting, you're going to get us all killed, and I have a lot more card games I need to lose. By Leigh Bardugo

You can't be serious," I said."Not on a regular basis, no. By Leigh Bardugo

The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. By Leigh Bardugo

Sugar," said Kaz.Jesper nudged the sugar bowl down the table to him.Kaz rolled his eyes. "Not for my coffee, you podge. By Leigh Bardugo

This was what Ravka did. It made orphans. It made misery. No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun. By Leigh Bardugo

It's still the same heart, Mal. It's still yours. By Leigh Bardugo

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

Nina, little red bird. Don't go. By Leigh Bardugo

little red bird. Don't go. By Leigh Bardugo

I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story. By Leigh Bardugo

More flexible!" David said in near ecstasy. "What can I say?" asked Genya drily. "He's a passionate man. By Leigh Bardugo

You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?" I asked as I closed the book's cover and headed for the door. "They always end up dead. By Leigh Bardugo

Maybe your tutors didn't cover this lesson, but you do not argue with a man covered in blood and a knife up his sleeve. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm not like you, Mal. I never really fit in the way you did. I never really belonged anywhere.""You belonged with me. By Leigh Bardugo

Feeling anything for Kaz Brekker was the worst follishness. By Leigh Bardugo

You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it. By Leigh Bardugo

Nina, people love to give up authority to men in nice clothes. By Leigh Bardugo

Apparently she was going to have to stock up on ugly knitwear. * By Leigh Bardugo

Morozova's stag. Rusalye. The firebird. Legends come to life before my eyes, just to die in front of me. By Leigh Bardugo

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down. By Leigh Bardugo

There is no end to our story. By Leigh Bardugo

Only two were unmarked. Tolya and Tamar led the charge, eyes wild, blades flashing, roaring my name. By Leigh Bardugo

Her blades were reliable. And they made her feel like she'd been born with proper claws. By Leigh Bardugo

I couldn't help myself. I hauled off and punched him in the face. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own. By Leigh Bardugo

I hope you don't expect fairness from me, Alina. It isn't one of my specialties. By Leigh Bardugo

Sure, I'm skinny,' he said as they hurried back through the stables, 'but I stay drier in the rain.''How?''Less falls on me. By Leigh Bardugo

And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance. By Leigh Bardugo

If I told you I'm trying to save the world, would you believe me? By Leigh Bardugo

It's none of my business, and I have no idea if he'd be good for you. Probably bring you ten kinds of headache. But I think you'd be good for him. By Leigh Bardugo

Stop treating your pain like it's something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, the you can heal it. By Leigh Bardugo

I love it when you quote me. By Leigh Bardugo

Saints, Kaz, you actually look happy.""Don't be ridiculous," he snapped. But there was no mistaking it. Kaz Brekker was grinning like an idiot. By Leigh Bardugo

STRYMAKTFJERDAN. Fjerdan might. By Leigh Bardugo

When you can't beat the odds, change the game. By Leigh Bardugo

You don't win by running one game. By Leigh Bardugo

I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you.""You... you can?""It catches every time, like he's never seen you before. By Leigh Bardugo

It was like standing at the end of everything. By Leigh Bardugo

It's not natural for women to fight.""It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand. By Leigh Bardugo

I can bear ugliness," he said. "I find the one thing I cannot live with is death. By Leigh Bardugo

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

No matter the height of the mountain, the climbing is the same. By Leigh Bardugo

We don't know what may happen next. This is all we've got. By Leigh Bardugo

I thought you wanted to go.""I wanted you to ask me to stay. By Leigh Bardugo

His heart was pounding, and adrenaline crackled through his body in delicious spikes. By Leigh Bardugo

Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind. By Leigh Bardugo

They fear you as I once feared you," he said. "As you once feared me. We are all someone's monster, Nina. By Leigh Bardugo

Tell me, Alina, has he claimed you yet?""Claimed me? Like a peninsula? By Leigh Bardugo

Matthias suspected that Brekker would drag the girl back from hell himself if he had to. Jesper By Leigh Bardugo

The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. By Leigh Bardugo

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. By Leigh Bardugo

But I pushed down my confused tears and did as she asked, still hoping that whatever I'd broken might be repaired. By Leigh Bardugo

Are we philosophizing?" asked Harshaw. "Or were those song lyrics? By Leigh Bardugo

Shame holds more value than coin ever can." He By Leigh Bardugo

And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have. By Leigh Bardugo

The problem with waiting is that it makes us weak By Leigh Bardugo

I roll my eyes. Well, if I plan on doing anything exciting I promise to give fair warning so just ... take a nap or something. By Leigh Bardugo

That boy had betrayed his weakness in a single glance, had ceded the war for the sake of a single battle, and put Inej--all of them--in danger. By Leigh Bardugo

Before you finish that sentence, I want you to think about what a promise from me costs and what you're willing to pay for it. By Leigh Bardugo

You are a stolen painting, Kuwei. Too recognizable to sell on the open market, too valuable to leave lying around. You are worthless to me. By Leigh Bardugo

That, Kuwei, is the sound that death makes when she comes calling. By Leigh Bardugo

He'd heard there were sharks in these waters, but he knew they wouldn't touch him. He was a monster now, too. By Leigh Bardugo

Being a leader means someone is always watching you. By Leigh Bardugo

You can't spend his money if you're dead." "I'll acquire expensive habits in the afterlife. By Leigh Bardugo

She'd often wished to chip away a bit of his arrogance, but she couldn't bear the idea of seeing Kaz stripped of his pride. By Leigh Bardugo

Greed is your god, Kaz."He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever. By Leigh Bardugo

He knew exactly what he intended to leave behind when he was gone.Damage. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm pragmatic. If I were cruel, I'd give him an eulogy instead of a conversation. By Leigh Bardugo

Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job. By Leigh Bardugo

In the end, Kaz Brekker was a just a boy, and she'd let him lead her to this fate. By Leigh Bardugo

He was a collection of hard lines and tailored edges By Leigh Bardugo

She would have her ship and he would have his city. By Leigh Bardugo

Compromise," Kaz said. " 'I'm sorry' does the trick and uses fewer bullets. By Leigh Bardugo

Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb. By Leigh Bardugo

One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder. By Leigh Bardugo

The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever. By Leigh Bardugo

It's simply a question of finding the right incentive. Pauper or prince, every man can be bought By Leigh Bardugo

To hell with revenge, to hell with his schemes. If Rollins had done something to Inej, Kaz would paint East Stave with his entrails. By Leigh Bardugo

It's hard to keep track of all your wisdom. By Leigh Bardugo

Memories were a luxury for other children, not the Keramzin orphans. By Leigh Bardugo

She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above. By Leigh Bardugo

We are the Triumvirate. We do not take orders from Kerch street rats with dubious haircuts. By Leigh Bardugo

I just don't get it. I've spent my whole life hiding the things I can't do. Why run from the amazing things you can do? By Leigh Bardugo

It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.""You only say that because you have no shame. By Leigh Bardugo

We are alike," he said, "as no one else is, as no one else will ever be."The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like. By Leigh Bardugo

We do the best we can do. By Leigh Bardugo

It's a symbol, Helvar. If your god is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one. Let's get out of here. By Leigh Bardugo

Na razrusha'ya. E'ya razrushost." (Translation): I am not ruined. I am ruination. By Leigh Bardugo

Ivan gabbled something in Shu that I didn't understand. The giant just laughed."You speak Shu like a tourist," he said. By Leigh Bardugo

The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I'm going to get my girl. By Leigh Bardugo

Brick by brick, I will destroy you. But By Leigh Bardugo

And then he kissed me. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

How could he be so cruel and still so human? By Leigh Bardugo

If you didn't like the weather, you didn't rush into the storm--you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet. (p182) By Leigh Bardugo

If he cannot be tried for his failures as a king, let him be tried for his failures as a man. By Leigh Bardugo

I seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned. By Leigh Bardugo

Why won't you leave me alone? Then I'd be alone too. By Leigh Bardugo

I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine. By Leigh Bardugo

It really does look like the rings of a tree," she said. "No," said Kaz. "It looks like a target. By Leigh Bardugo

None of us moves on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost. By Leigh Bardugo

Kaz was going to kill her. She was going to kill Kaz. By Leigh Bardugo

The volcra, the nichevo'ya, they were my monsters, all of them. And he was my monster, too. By Leigh Bardugo

This isn't hope, I thought. It's madness. It's hunger, need, desperation. By Leigh Bardugo

Tell me some lies. By Leigh Bardugo

You have crumbs on your cleavage." "Don't care," she said, taking another bite of cake. "So hungry." Kaz By Leigh Bardugo

You dug this grave. Go lie in it. By Leigh Bardugo

Mercy. Had I ever really understood it? Had I actually believed I knew what it was to suffer? To forgive? By Leigh Bardugo

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes. By Leigh Bardugo

Another demon. This one walked with soft feet like she'd drifted in from the next world and no one had the good sense to send her back. By Leigh Bardugo

Don't worry, Da. People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It's basically a handshake. By Leigh Bardugo

Madam's spirits have been restored! The sun can once more shine! By Leigh Bardugo

No Mourners.No Funerals. By Leigh Bardugo

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes. By Leigh Bardugo

There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us. By Leigh Bardugo

The living world had disappeared. Darkness fell around us, black, weightless, and absolute. We were in the Fold. By Leigh Bardugo

Matthias and Wylan seized the rope to pull him up. Jesper wasn't sure how much Wylan was actually helping, but he was certainly working hard. By Leigh Bardugo

That's the laugh," he murmured, but she was already setting off down the quay, her feet barely touching the ground. By Leigh Bardugo

Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten. By Leigh Bardugo

My Wraith would counsel mercy. But thanks to you, she's not here to plead your case. By Leigh Bardugo

Was that chloro gas?""Definitely cuter when you're smart. By Leigh Bardugo

Wylan looked back at the water. He'd started to think of Jesper as fearless, but maybe being brave didn't mean being unafraid. By Leigh Bardugo

That's the problem with Ketterdam, Jesper thought as they stumbled uncertainly through the dark. Trusting the wrong person can get you killed. By Leigh Bardugo

We don't look anything alike." "You're both tall," Inej offered. "And neither of us have gills," said Nina. "That doesn't mean we look related. By Leigh Bardugo

Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea. By Leigh Bardugo

I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath. By Leigh Bardugo

Freedom is a burden, but you will learn to bear it. By Leigh Bardugo

I didn't belong in this beautiful world, and if I didn't find a away to use my power, I never would. By Leigh Bardugo

I can't believe we broke out of the Ice Court but we're trapped in our own town," Wylan said. By Leigh Bardugo

I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins. By Leigh Bardugo

Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show. By Leigh Bardugo

Don't feel too bad, tracker," said the Darkling. "All men can be made fools. By Leigh Bardugo

I miss knowing what happens next. By Leigh Bardugo

i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket. By Leigh Bardugo

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true. By Leigh Bardugo

I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important. By Leigh Bardugo

How are you finding our country?" "It's a magical place," Nina gushed. If you like ice and more ice. By Leigh Bardugo

I will have you without armor or I will not have you at all. By Leigh Bardugo

She was tall and built like the figurehead of a ship carved by a generous hand. By Leigh Bardugo

Idiot.""That fact is well established and adds nothing to the plot. By Leigh Bardugo

Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache. By Leigh Bardugo

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men. By Leigh Bardugo

When everyone knows you're a monster, you needn't waste time doing every monstrous thing. By Leigh Bardugo

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

You're very welcome, gorgeous. See, Kaz? That's how the civilized folk do. By Leigh Bardugo

If we don't survive this night, I will die unafraid, Kaz. Can you say the same? By Leigh Bardugo

Jesper could never tell how much of what Kaz got away with was smarts and planning and how much was dumb luck. By Leigh Bardugo

old women must know something, or they wouldn't live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front stoops. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm the kind of bastard they only manufacture in the barrel. By Leigh Bardugo

Be brutal. Be cruel. More lives will be saved in the long run. By Leigh Bardugo

(...) remember that to use a thing is not to own it. By Leigh Bardugo

Always hit where the mark isn't looking""Who's Mark?" asked Wylan. By Leigh Bardugo

Laziness wasn't as reliable as greed, but it still made a fine lever. By Leigh Bardugo

He laughed then. It was the first time I'd ever heard his laugh, a lovely dark sound that rippled through the air. By Leigh Bardugo

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart. By Leigh Bardugo

She'd been so docile that Nina had become concerned. "Maybe she's not getting enough blood to herbrain?" she'd murmured to Matthias. By Leigh Bardugo

Just trust me, Nina." "I wouldn't trust you to tie my shoes without stealing the laces, Kaz. By Leigh Bardugo

You can just pull the covers over your head and pretend this isn't happening! By Leigh Bardugo

Why don't you just admit that you wanted to belong to him? Why don't you admit that part of you still does? By Leigh Bardugo

Maybe you're hungry," said Zoya. "I always get mean when I'm hungry. By Leigh Bardugo

A privateer learns to press any advantage.""And a prince?""Princes get used to the word yes. By Leigh Bardugo

No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck. By Leigh Bardugo

But if you couldn't open a door, you just had to make a new one. By Leigh Bardugo

Things are always more interesting in the dark By Leigh Bardugo

And I'm sorry to inform you, but you're not proper either. By Leigh Bardugo

Saints!" I swore. "I forgot how often I want to stab you. By Leigh Bardugo

It's always just you and me. By Leigh Bardugo

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it. By Leigh Bardugo

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

You want a love story too? There's none to be had. By Leigh Bardugo

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it. By Leigh Bardugo

Who wears white to a knife fight? By Leigh Bardugo

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that. By Leigh Bardugo

She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him. By Leigh Bardugo

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

A good magician wasn't much different from a proper thief. By Leigh Bardugo

We're alive," he said at last."It seems you prayed to the right god.""Or traveled with the right people. By Leigh Bardugo

Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man. By Leigh Bardugo

The Darkling slumped back in his chair. "Fine," he said with a weary shrug. "Make me your villain. By Leigh Bardugo

I have loved you all my life, Mal. There is no end to our story. By Leigh Bardugo

I felt as I always had in his arms - complete, like I was home. By Leigh Bardugo

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry. By Leigh Bardugo

When someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don't say we're sorry. We promise to make amends. By Leigh Bardugo

Smart enough to get out of one trap, but too foolish to realise he wont't escape a second. By Leigh Bardugo

We are all someone's monster. By Leigh Bardugo

Angry wears off. I needed you righteous. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

I know it comes easy, Geels, but try not to play dumb with me. By Leigh Bardugo

Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a unifiorm to do it? By Leigh Bardugo

I knew there was no bottom to the Darkling's pain. He would just keep falling and falling. By Leigh Bardugo

Know that I loved you. Know that it was not enough. By Leigh Bardugo

But if Koja had words, then he had hope. By Leigh Bardugo

The boom, the bang, the flint and fuss. By Leigh Bardugo

The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. By Leigh Bardugo

Six people, but a thousand ways this insane plan could go wrong. By Leigh Bardugo

She learned which herbs were valuable and which were dangerous, and which herbs were valuable because they were dangerous. By Leigh Bardugo

Are we not all things By Leigh Bardugo

Brick by brick, I will destroy you. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less.""You're a thief, Kaz.""Isn't that what I just said? By Leigh Bardugo

No rustle came from the trees, no insect buzz or neighbors call ... The woods were silent in their grief. By Leigh Bardugo

Murderer!" I shouted "Monster!""All of those things. By Leigh Bardugo

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next. By Leigh Bardugo

I can phrase it as a question if it will make your feathers lie flat. By Leigh Bardugo

And the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

You are on your knees. . . .we are not negotiating. By Leigh Bardugo

We are all somebody's monster. By Leigh Bardugo

You're shaking.""I'm not used to people trying to kill me.""Really? I hardly notice anymore. By Leigh Bardugo

Loss. This was the price the world had demanded for balance. By Leigh Bardugo

Matthias was not fooled. Kaz always spoke logic, but that didn't mean he always told truth. By Leigh Bardugo

Her father would have said the shadows were about their own business tonight. Something bad was going to happen here. By Leigh Bardugo

She'd smiled. He'd smiled. She'd wanted to claw his face to shreds. By Leigh Bardugo

Inej was always trying to wring little bits of decency from him. By Leigh Bardugo

It seems to work better than jabbing them with a stick," he said."Less fun.""My jabbing arm is tired. By Leigh Bardugo

There is no greater power than faith, and there will be no greater army than one driven by it. By Leigh Bardugo

Make me your villain. By Leigh Bardugo

She'd let herself be led because she hadn't known where she'd wanted to go. By Leigh Bardugo

You didn't cause this. This happened because your father is a lunatic dressed up in a quality suit. By Leigh Bardugo

We're all someone's monster, Nina. By Leigh Bardugo

I don't like this.""To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much. By Leigh Bardugo

Jesper, you're tall, brown, and conspicuous-""All synonyms for delightful. By Leigh Bardugo

Never underestimate the public's desire to get something for nothing. By Leigh Bardugo

If I want to watch men dig holes to fall into, I'll find myself a cemetery. By Leigh Bardugo

You try telling that ox what to do and see what happens. By Leigh Bardugo

Kaz rolled his eyes. The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch. By Leigh Bardugo

Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. By Leigh Bardugo

Kaz, this whole 'shoot me' thing is starting to concern me. By Leigh Bardugo

Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz. By Leigh Bardugo

What is he doing?" asked Matthias."Performing an ancient Zemeni ritual," Kaz said."Really?""No. By Leigh Bardugo

Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does. By Leigh Bardugo

Ketterdam is made of monsters. I just happen to have the longest teeth. By Leigh Bardugo

Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet. By Leigh Bardugo

Everyone okay?" Mal asked."Never better," said Genya shakily.David raised his hand. "I've been better. By Leigh Bardugo

They crushed the ship between them with a resonant boom, sending debris flying. Jesper screamed in rage and raised his guns. By Leigh Bardugo

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

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? By Leigh Bardugo

You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic. By Leigh Bardugo

the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too. The By Leigh Bardugo

Start building walls, and people begin to wonder what you're hiding. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm not sure I have a heart to give any more, Papa. By Leigh Bardugo

Understatement is overrated By Leigh Bardugo

You wouldn't know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth. By Leigh Bardugo

This action will have no echo. By Leigh Bardugo

We all did our part to bring about the end of the world. By Leigh Bardugo

I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now. By Leigh Bardugo

We don't know what may happen next. By Leigh Bardugo

Did you tell him what I showed you in the dark? By Leigh Bardugo

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone. By Leigh Bardugo

All these people dead, and I miss pretty things. By Leigh Bardugo

I try to make a habit of getting things hopelessly wrong. By Leigh Bardugo

Were you always this much trouble?""I like to think of myself as delightfully complex. By Leigh Bardugo

She had her aim now, her heart had direction, and though it hurt to know the path led away from him, she could endure it. By Leigh Bardugo

Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same. By Leigh Bardugo

No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence. Go on, give those guns By Leigh Bardugo

I would burn a thousand villages, sacrifice a thousand lives to keep you safe. By Leigh Bardugo

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. By Leigh Bardugo

You can only sharpen a blade so far. In the end, it comes down to the quality of metal. By Leigh Bardugo

My mother was an oyster, And I'm the pearl. By Leigh Bardugo

My mother was an oyster," he said with a wink. "And I'm the pearl. By Leigh Bardugo

I am not sorry, she realized. She had chosen to live freely as a killer rather than die quietly as a slave, and she could not regret that. By Leigh Bardugo

- I have principles.- That means "If i can be difficult, I will". By Leigh Bardugo

The deal is the deal. By Leigh Bardugo

There is no one I want more; there is nothing I want more than to be overwhelmed by you. By Leigh Bardugo

A proper thief is like a proper poison, merchling. He leaves no trace. By Leigh Bardugo

I'd prefer a pair of sable-lined swimming trunks. But we can't always get what we want. By Leigh Bardugo

Fear is a powerful ally, but feed it too often, make it too strong, and it will turn on you. By Leigh Bardugo

He knew the look of a man defending his home with nothing but a rock in his hand. By Leigh Bardugo

I am become a blade. By Leigh Bardugo

Find her tells. Everyone has them. By Leigh Bardugo

On my word as a liar and cutthroat. By Leigh Bardugo

Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift. By Leigh Bardugo

Close your mouth before something flies in, I snapped. By Leigh Bardugo

You were an odd little girl.""You have no idea. What did you and Toyla play with?" "The skulls of our enemies. By Leigh Bardugo

Scars made good reminders. By Leigh Bardugo

Just you and me.""Really?""It's always just you and me, Alina. By Leigh Bardugo

For a girl who hated looking at herself, I was at risk of becoming vain. By Leigh Bardugo

Alone in the gloom, surrounded by books, it was hard not to feel overwhelmed. By Leigh Bardugo

How many times have you told me you're a monster? So be a monster. Be the thing they all fear when they close their eyes at night. By Leigh Bardugo

I say we go down fighting." ... "We do the best we can. By Leigh Bardugo

She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of. By Leigh Bardugo

Sometimes a proper thief doesn't just take. He leaves something behind. By Leigh Bardugo

The light lives in the spaces between. It is there in the soil of that mountain, in the rock and in the snow. By Leigh Bardugo

I would come for you and if I couldn't walk I would crawl to you. By Leigh Bardugo

We all die. Not everyone dies for a reason. By Leigh Bardugo

I've been shot!" He had not been shot. By Leigh Bardugo

You aren't a murderer, Alina.""I think the Ravkans I just helped you slaughter would disagree. By Leigh Bardugo

Every time you say 'trust me', I trust you even less By Leigh Bardugo

Chaos will come and I will be its master. By Leigh Bardugo

Do you take anything seriously?""Not if I can help it. Makes life so tedious. By Leigh Bardugo

I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream. By Leigh Bardugo

I am not ruined. I am ruination. By Leigh Bardugo

Have you looked in a mirror lately?""I think you do that enough for the both of us. By Leigh Bardugo

Have you even held a command? Nikolai asked. I'd once led a seminar of junior mapmakers, but I didn't think that was what he meant. By Leigh Bardugo

You are all I've ever wanted," he said. "You are the whole of my heart. By Leigh Bardugo

If you write, you're a writer. By Leigh Bardugo

This isn't a job for soldiers and spies. It's a job for thugs and thieves. By Leigh Bardugo

The too-clever fox, finally caught. By Leigh Bardugo

I might not be a threat, but I could become one. By Leigh Bardugo

I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way. By Leigh Bardugo

The others. Swear to me you'll at least try to help them, to make them see. By Leigh Bardugo

He tapped the sun over his heart. I came here for you. You're my flag. You're my nation. By Leigh Bardugo

I don't reserve my friendship for perfect people. By Leigh Bardugo

A secret's not like coin. It doesn't keep its value in the spending. By Leigh Bardugo

I love a little righteous comeuppance. By Leigh Bardugo

We're all someone's monster. By Leigh Bardugo

I am a King-""And I am a Saint. Shall we see whose word carries more weight? By Leigh Bardugo

They'd come to the Ice Court scurrying like rats. Live or die, they were going out like an army. By Leigh Bardugo