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He was a wounded animal who needed to be put down. And Kaz had done it gladly, choked the life from him without pause for regret. The Kaz that remained saw only the job: Free Inej. Make Van Eck pay. The rest was useless noise.


Leigh Bardugo

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LEIGH BARDUGO Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It ca...
LEIGH BARDUGO She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thou...
LEIGH BARDUGO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the pe...
LEIGH BARDUGO Greed is your god, Kaz."
He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my serva...
LEIGH BARDUGO You can't spend his money if you're dead."

"I'll acquire expensive habits in the afterli...
LEIGH BARDUGO No, little brother. No one is stronger. You've cheated death too many times. Greed may do your biddi...
LEIGH BARDUGO What are you smiling at?”

I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se...
LEIGH BARDUGO A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him.
LEIGH BARDUGO Speak, she begged silently. Give me a reason to stay. For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was s...
LEIGH BARDUGO At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone.
"Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered.
...
LEIGH BARDUGO The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but ...
LEIGH BARDUGO If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or...
PIERS ANTHONY The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.
LEIGH BARDUGO I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"
LEIGH BARDUGO She would have her ship and he would have his city.
LEIGH BARDUGO The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the l...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked...
LEIGH BARDUGO Well, he needed it. He was about to cry, and the next time I saw him he had a smile on his face, so ...
LARRY WHEELER He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious...
CASSANDRA CLARE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER He got down on himself and so the biggest thing I think I had to do with him was convince him that w...
BILLY BAKER Max saw the stranger give him the once-over, recognised it for what it was. Women had been making hi...
NALINI SINGH He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and th...
ANNE MALLORY I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w...
JOHN SCALZI A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only t...
KENKO YOSHIDA A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only t...
KENKO YOSHIDA He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL ...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and ...
ELLE NEWMARK I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.
LEIGH BARDUGO The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE I want you to stay. I want you to … I want you.” “You want me.” She turned the words over. G...
LEIGH BARDUGO I choked last year, so I had to make both this time. He blew the whistle before I shot, so that was ...
JAKE NIELSON Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Inej turned to go. Kaz seized her hand, keeping it on the railing. He didn't look at her. "Stay", he...
LEIGH BARDUGO He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood ...
AYN RAND Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, stand...
MARY LAWSON We first met during the formation of World Series cricket. There was never anything mundane or ortho...
RICHIE BENAUD Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA He was there when you needed him. He was always the last one to leave (the station) to make sure eve...
BILL QUIGLEY The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really for...
LEO TOLSTOY I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean...
T.J. KLUNE The only justification that he ever gave for what was done to him was a generic 'I was bad' or 'I ha...
TIM BROWN Just this minute, I'll settle for an apology, she decided. And I wont' board the boat without one. E...
LEIGH BARDUGO Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew ...
DENIS JOHNSON But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep...
J.K. ROWLING This sense of absence had been growing ... It was wearing into him. Last night he had woken besides ...
IAN MCEWAN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi...
WOODROW WILSON You'll get what's coming to you some day, Brekker."
"I will," said Kaz, "if there's any justice...
LEIGH BARDUGO That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I cal...
LEW WASSERMAN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think he should be in prison the rest of his life without parole. I don't know how he can live wit...
CINDY MORGAN It was terrible, and I even told the police officer when I saw him heading down, I said, 'Where are ...
DANNY GARCIA His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he m...
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THOMAS MERTON (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON This was important to him, and it tells the history of Colorado for him. He knew the history of his ...
BETTIE BACA I was so proud when I saw that. I thought, 'That's how it should be.' That kid the rest of his life ...
MARTHA MILES For the song 'Truth or Consequence,' me and [bassist Mick Morris] had this friend from Salt Lake Cit...
JAMES HART He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was ...
E.M. FORSTER From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE I knew he was coming. I just wanted to direct him where to slide to. We had a wild-pitch read from o...
ERIC ETCHISON I saw the replay on the board and from what you see it looks like he took it down and put the ball ...
BOB BRADLEY Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto...
RENEE AHDIEH We played a lot of kids and saw a lot kids, normally seven, eight, nine in the rotation, step up wit...
JOE KONIECZNY Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he h...
ALICE MILLER Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE He looked down at his boots. "That berth belongs to you too. It will always be there when―if you w...
LEIGH BARDUGO This was a very difficult race, and Fernando has got another fantastic result. The whole team did a ...
FLAVIO BRIATORE A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men wh...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE He wrestled with it the rest of the year, but there was a point where he wanted to quit. I was talki...
CHAD POWELL I’m going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I’m going to get my girl.
LEIGH BARDUGO Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but th...
BIBLE I don't want your prayers, he said.
What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to...
LEIGH BARDUGO He'd told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we ...
LEIGH BARDUGO To be the best is a choice you make on your own
SOTONYE ANGA The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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TOM FOLSOM He therefore turned to mankind only with regret. His cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled wi...
VICTOR HUGO When I saw him at his best When everything was at its worst He has proven me and the rest of the wor...
HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS He wasn’t going to be able to deactivate the field, which meant there was only one choice.
G.S. JENNSEN All his life Harry Bosch believed he had a mission. And to carry out that mission he needed to be bu...
MICHAEL CONNELLY To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a s...
MICHAEL ONDAATJE He was an animal tonight. If he plays like that for the rest of the conference schedule, we'll be in...
LARRY WILLIFORD To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
CONNILYN COSSETTE The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what wa...
KHALED HOSSEINI He only allowed himself a quick glance at her, knowing as soon as he saw her that she was the kind o...
ADI ALSAID We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
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...
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No Funerals.
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“And after,” he ...
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LEIGH BARDUGO Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
"Guns?" asked Jes...
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LEIGH BARDUGO I saw the prince when I was in Os Alta,” said Ekaterina. “He’s not bad looking.”
“Not...
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LEIGH BARDUGO Everyone okay?" Mal asked.

"Never better," said Genya shakily.

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"We dance," Diana protested.
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LEIGH BARDUGO Meeting you was a disaster.”
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LEIGH BARDUGO Scheming face,” Inej murmured.
Jesper nodded. “Definitely.
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"So?" sa...
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LEIGH BARDUGO I don't like this."
"To be fair, Matthias, you don't like much.
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LEIGH BARDUGO I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.
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LEIGH BARDUGO Too much champagne?”
“Maybe.”
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" Because I've...
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What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to...
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LEIGH BARDUGO I shouldn't have lost my temper that way. It just pricks his pride, makes him dig in his heels."
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“And after,” he ...
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"What?"
"Thanks for finding me."
"Always.
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LEIGH BARDUGO She would have her ship and he would have his city.
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LEIGH BARDUGO You can't spend his money if you're dead."

"I'll acquire expensive habits in the afterli...
LEIGH BARDUGO You'll get what's coming to you some day, Brekker."
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LEIGH BARDUGO Any other impossible feats you'd like us to accomplish?"

The barest smile flickered over ...
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LEIGH BARDUGO There are better things than princes.
LEIGH BARDUGO We were not made to please princes.
LEIGH BARDUGO Do you take anything seriously?”
“Not if I can help it. Makes life so tedious.
LEIGH BARDUGO You’re stupid about a lot of things, Wylan, but you are not stupid. And if I ever hear you call yo...
LEIGH BARDUGO If only you could talk to girls in equations.”
There was a long silence, and then, eyes trai...
LEIGH BARDUGO Nina might not be able to put you back, you know. Not without another dose of parem. You could be st...
LEIGH BARDUGO Just this minute, I'll settle for an apology, she decided. And I wont' board the boat without one. E...
LEIGH BARDUGO He looked down at his boots. "That berth belongs to you too. It will always be there when―if you w...
LEIGH BARDUGO I've been nothing but kind to you. I'm not some sort of monster."
"No, you're the man who sits ...
LEIGH BARDUGO People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. The...
LEIGH BARDUGO Then the memory of the Darkling's kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my t...
LEIGH BARDUGO C’mon,” he said. “One foot in front of the other. You know how it’s done”
“You’re...
LEIGH BARDUGO I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out eve...
LEIGH BARDUGO I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Thanks for being my best friend and making my life bearable. Oh, and sorry I fell in love with y...
LEIGH BARDUGO Did you miss me, Alina? Did you miss me when you were gone?"
"Every day," I said hoarsely.
LEIGH BARDUGO Did you tell him what I showed you in the dark?
LEIGH BARDUGO Do you blame me for every mistake I made? For every girl I tumbled? For every dumb thing I've said? ...
LEIGH BARDUGO So I'm the Darkling's prisoner?"
"You're under his protection."
"What's the difference?" LEIGH BARDUGO Just you and me."
"Really?"
"It's always just you and me, Alina.
LEIGH BARDUGO A moment later the boy whispered, "I don't think you're ugly."
"Shhhh!" the girl hissed. But hi...
LEIGH BARDUGO Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him.
LEIGH BARDUGO If it were a trick, I'd promise you safety. I'd offer you happiness. I don't know if that exists in ...
LEIGH BARDUGO The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
LEIGH BARDUGO I am grateful you're alive", he said. "I am grateful that you're beside me. I am grateful that you'r...
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 be...
LEIGH BARDUGO I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.
LEIGH BARDUGO Jesper couldn’t quite believe he was having a conversation with the Sturmhond. The privateer was a...
LEIGH BARDUGO Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.
LEIGH BARDUGO He'd told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.
LEIGH BARDUGO The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the h...
LEIGH BARDUGO Why do you guys say that, anyway? No mourners, no funerals? Why not just say good luck or be safe?�...
LEIGH BARDUGO He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever ...
LEIGH BARDUGO You don’t look like a monster.”
“I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monster...
LEIGH BARDUGO If Ketterdam has taught me anything, it's that you can always bleed a little more.
LEIGH BARDUGO Nina Zenik, as soon as I figure out where you've put my knives, we're going to have words."
LEIGH BARDUGO Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?"
"Still old and blind," she snarled.
"An...
LEIGH BARDUGO What you want and what the world needs are not always in accord.
LEIGH BARDUGO Fear is a powerful ally, but feed it too often, make it too strong, and it will turn on you.
LEIGH BARDUGO Pull your shirt up over your mouth,” he told Wylan.
“What?”
“Stop being dense. You...
LEIGH BARDUGO The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.
LEIGH BARDUGO I need your skills, Inej. That's not the same thing. You may be the best spider crawling around the ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Thoughts of moonlight and silken hair evaporated in a black bolt of fury. Kaz saw Inej tug on the sl...
LEIGH BARDUGO You have your own problems right now, Zenik, said a voice in her head. Stop worrying about saving th...
LEIGH BARDUGO, CROOKED KINGDOM I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.
LEIGH LEZARK