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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.


Leigh Bardugo

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LEIGH BARDUGO Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
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LEIGH BARDUGO Everyone okay?" Mal asked.

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LEIGH BARDUGO Meeting you was a disaster.”
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What do you want, then?
The old answers came easily to...
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“And after,” he ...
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LEIGH BARDUGO You're shaking."

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

"Really? I hardly...
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LEIGH BARDUGO Mal,"I whispered into the night.
"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 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."
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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.
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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.
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LEIGH BARDUGO If only you could talk to girls in equations.”
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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 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