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


Leigh Bardugo

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LEIGH BARDUGO No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.
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LEIGH BARDUGO I took a breath. “Your highness—”
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LEIGH BARDUGO Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
LEIGH BARDUGO I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.
LEIGH BARDUGO Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
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LEIGH BARDUGO The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.
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LEIGH BARDUGO The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my li...
LEIGH BARDUGO Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
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LEIGH BARDUGO He leaned against the window, and the gilded frame came into sharp focus. “Do you think it would b...
LEIGH BARDUGO And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.
LEIGH BARDUGO Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.
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"Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered.
...
LEIGH BARDUGO I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.”
“I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond...
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LEIGH BARDUGO You were like a stranger, Alina. Beautiful," he said. "Terrible.
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LEIGH BARDUGO I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.
LEIGH BARDUGO What do you want then?"
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LEIGH BARDUGO I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you."
"You... you can?"
"It catc...
LEIGH BARDUGO No Mourners.
No Funerals.
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“And after,” he ...
LEIGH BARDUGO The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.
LEIGH BARDUGO I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.
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LEIGH BARDUGO Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked...
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LEIGH BARDUGO I roll my eyes. "Well, if I plan on doing anything exciting I promise to give fair warning so just.....
LEIGH BARDUGO What are you smiling at?”

I whirled, peering into the gloom. The Darkling’s voice se...
LEIGH BARDUGO Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.
LEIGH BARDUGO What is she to you anyway?"

"Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all...
LEIGH BARDUGO Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.
LEIGH BARDUGO I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.
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LEIGH BARDUGO How many times have you told me you're a monster? So be a monster. Be the thing they all fear when t...
LEIGH BARDUGO She smiled then, her cheeks red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thou...
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LEIGH BARDUGO A wise warrior learns from her mistakes.
LEIGH BARDUGO And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.
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LEIGH BARDUGO Be brutal. Be cruel. More lives will be saved in the long run.
LEIGH BARDUGO Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.
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"Guns?" asked Jes...
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“Not...
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LEIGH BARDUGO Everyone okay?" Mal asked.

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David raised hi...
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LEIGH BARDUGO Meeting you was a disaster.”
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
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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.
LEIGH BARDUGO Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.
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LEIGH BARDUGO What god do you serve? Inej had asked him. Whichever will grant me good fortune. Fortunate people di...
LEIGH BARDUGO Too much champagne?”
“Maybe.”
“Silly girl,” she said, looping her arm through ...
LEIGH BARDUGO When we get our money, you can burn kruge to keep you warm."
"I'm going to pay someone to burn ...
LEIGH BARDUGO You know I can do it, Kaz, and you know I'm not going to refuse. So why ask?"
" Because I've...
LEIGH BARDUGO I don't want your prayers, he said.
What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to...
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LEIGH BARDUGO You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be fille...
LEIGH BARDUGO This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us ...
LEIGH BARDUGO A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same:...
LEIGH BARDUGO He saw her draw closer in the mirror. Her black hair was an ink splash against the white tile walls....
LEIGH BARDUGO His knuckles brushed against her skin and lightning cracked through him, left him paralyzed, rooted ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Ketterdam is made of monsters. I just happen to have the longest teeth.
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LEIGH BARDUGO But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make...
LEIGH BARDUGO Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.
LEIGH BARDUGO I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.
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LEIGH BARDUGO The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might resh...
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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."
LEIGH BARDUGO I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.
LEIGH BARDUGO I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this question instead: What is infinite? T...
LEIGH BARDUGO No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to...
LEIGH BARDUGO Trevlig långresa ner', sa hon innan hon hoppade upp på räcket och gled iväg som en klick smör i...
LEIGH BARDUGO A different kind of knight, one who'd chosen to protect the girl the world wanted to destroy; one bo...
LEIGH BARDUGO I am done being careful. I am done being quiet. Let them see me angry. Let them hear me wail at the ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Stay,” she panted. Tears leaked from her eyes. “Stay till the end.”
“And after,” he ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Alone in the gloom, surrounded by books, it was hard not to feel overwhelmed.
LEIGH BARDUGO Yes, supermodels have the power to make you buy things you don't need and feel terrible about yourse...
LEIGH BARDUGO Speak, she begged silently. Give me a reason to stay. For all his selfishness and cruelty, Kaz was s...
LEIGH BARDUGO Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. ...
LEIGH BARDUGO There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Da...
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 m...
LEIGH BARDUGO You live in a single moment. I live in a thousand.
LEIGH BARDUGO When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window whe...
LEIGH BARDUGO What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we w...
LEIGH BARDUGO You're shaking."

"I'm not used to people trying to kill me."

"Really? I hardly...
LEIGH BARDUGO It's probably for the best, I told myself. How would I have said goodbye to Mal anyway? Thanks fo...
LEIGH BARDUGO Mal,"I whispered into the night.
"What?"
"Thanks for finding me."
"Always.
LEIGH BARDUGO I'm not like you, Mal. I never really fit in the way you did. I never really belonged anywhere."
LEIGH BARDUGO The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him fo...
LEIGH BARDUGO I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. ...
LEIGH BARDUGO She would have her ship and he would have his city.
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LEIGH BARDUGO A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him.
LEIGH BARDUGO Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb.
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."
"I will," said Kaz, "if there's any justice...
LEIGH BARDUGO Usually people don't start hating each other until a week into the job, but you two have a head star...
LEIGH BARDUGO He was going to break my legs ,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “...
LEIGH BARDUGO This action will have no echo.
LEIGH BARDUGO Any other impossible feats you'd like us to accomplish?"

The barest smile flickered over ...
LEIGH BARDUGO He’d wanted me to believe in his ruthlessness.
Then I remembered his words from so long ago:<...
LEIGH BARDUGO She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was ...
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 He was a wounded animal who needed to be put down. And Kaz had done it gladly, choked the life from ...
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