Inspirational Quotes by Leigh Bardugo — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“There is something more powerful than any army. Something strong enough to topple kings, and even Darklings. Do you know what that thing is?”

“And what god do you serve, then?”

“Their lives were violent, precarious, fragile, but they fought for them anyway, and held to the hope that their brief stay on this earth might count for something. That faith was worth preserving.”

“A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.”

“But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.”

“None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.”

“Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”

“I will always seek to make it summer for you.”

“Inej,” Wylan called from one of the rolling bins. “These are our clothes.”

“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”

“She remembered the first time she’d seen him at the Menagerie. He paid Tante Heleen for information—stock tips, political pillow talk, anything the Menagerie’s clients blabbed about when drunk or giddy on bliss. He never visited Heleen’s girls, though plenty would have been happy to take him up to their rooms. They claimed he gave them the shivers, that his hands were permanently stained with blood beneath those black gloves, but she’d recognized the eagerness in their voices and the way they tracked him with their eyes.”

“Let the hounds give chase. I do not fear death, because I command it.”

“Everyone mourns the first blossom.”

“Kaz knew it, and for some reason he loved to rile her. He wished he could read her expression now. There was always something so satisfying about the little furrow between her black brows.”

“(Tell me you know that). He needed her to say it. [...] He needed to know that she believed he could do this, [...] He needed to know she believed in him.”

“Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I'll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want.”

“This was the kiss he'd been waiting for. It was a gunshot. It was prairie fire. It was the spin of Makker's Wheel. Jesper felt the pounding of his heart - or was it Wylan's? - like a stampede in his chest.”

“But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.”

“I would make you my queen because I want you. I want you all the time.”

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”

“Truth means something different when it's given freely.”

“The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.”

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

“Greed is your god, Kaz.”

“The blood you spill is the blood of kings,” seethed Dunyasha. “You are not fit for such a gift.”

“Wylan drew himself up. “I may not have had your … education, but I’m sure I know plenty of words that you don’t.”

“Do you answer a question directly?”

“Jesper: “If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”

“Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?”