Grishaverse Quotes

“Why did you go to her?"
Because with her he was human again. How had she bested him? Sheer stubbornness. Something more. He's known a name for it once, a hundred lifetimes ago.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I have a conscience," said Kaz. "It just knows when to keeps its mouth shut”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“The boy and the girl had both known loss, and their grief did not leave them. Sometimes he would find her standing by a window, fingers playing in the beams of sunlight that streamed through the glass, or sitting on the front steps of the orphanage, staring at the stump of the oak next to the drive. Then he would go to her, draw her close, and lead her to the shores of Trivka's pond, where the insects buzzed and the grass grew high and sweet, where old wounds might be forgotten.
She saw sadness in the boy too. Though the woods still welcomed him, he was separate from them now, the bond born into his bones burned away in the same moment that he'd given up his life for her.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Names crowded into his thoughts. Staski. Kiril. Kirigan. Anton. Eryk. An avalanche of memories. He’d been all of them, but who should be become now? He’d had plenty of time to consider such things in the isolation of his glass cell, but now that he was free, truly free to choose, he found that only one name suited. The oldest of them: Aleksander. He had no reason to hide his strangeness anymore. Saints were meant to live forever.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“There was a war, there were a thousand wars. I knew a killer. I knew a hero. They might've been a same man.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints

“True,” said Nikolai. “But they know what you are too, Sankta Zoya.”
“Do not call me that.”
“It has a nice ring to it,” said Tamar.
“Our Lady of Dragonfire?” Suggested Nadia.
“Sweet scaly vengeance?” Said Genya.
Zoya turned her back on all of them and strode towards the tents. “I’m going to go live in a cave.”
― Leigh Bardugo , Rule of Wolves

“We're not helpless. Novels are full of ragtag bands facing impossible odds.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Like calls to like, Alina.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“War can make it hard to remember who we are.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Zowa. It simply meant "blessed". That was the word Jesper's mother used instead of Grisha. "we're Zowa", she would say.”
― Leigh Bardugo

“Darkness. You could hate it and hunger for it at the same time.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“He nudged his broadsword with one hand. "Zoya of the lost city. Zoya of the garden. Zoya bleeding in the snow. You are strong enough to survive the fall.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“This was her war, and she demanded the freedom to fight it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Mal,” I whispered into the night.
“What?”
“Thanks for finding me.”
I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming, but somewhere in the dark,
I thought I heard him whisper, “Always.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Breker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You will wed a Taban sister who craves a crown," she said. "Or a wealthy Kerch girl, or maybe a Fjerdan royal. You will have heirs and a future. I'm not the queen Ravka needs.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“The problem with wanting is that it make us weak." - Darkling”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Can you blame him?” Genya said. “He hasn’t had much luck with proposals.”
Alina snorted. “Maybe he should have offered me a dynasty and not some piddly little emerald.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“True,” said Nickolai. “But they know what you are too, Sankta Zoya.”
“Do not call me that.”
“It has a nice ring to it,” said Tamar.
“Our Lady of Dragonfire?” suggested Nadia.
“Sweet scaly vengeance?” said Genya.
Zoya turned her back on them all and strode towards the tents. “I’m going to go live in a cave.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“If you're going to jump, at least give me time to compose a ballad in your honor...something with lots of sad fiddle and a verse devoted to your love of herring.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“What is there to be sorry about? I've finally gotten what I wanted.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“You are on your knees. We are not negotiating.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Anything worht doing always starts as a bad idea. Nikolai's words.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea. Nikolai's words.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Te lo prometo, Matthias. Te llevaré a casa. —Nina —dijo él, presionando la mano de ella sobre su corazón—. Ya estoy en casa.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Reino de ladrones

“—¿Sabes cuál es el problema de los héroes y los santos, Nikolai? —pregunté mientras cerraba la cubierta del libro y me dirigía hacia la puerta—. Siempre acaban muertos.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone & Siege and Storm

“Voy a contarte una historia… Una que solía contarle a un niño pequeño de pelo oscuro, un niño silencioso que rara vez se reía, que escuchaba más de lo que yo me daba cuenta. Un niño que tenía un nombre, y no un título.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“—Mal —susurré en la noche.
—¿Qué?
—Gracias por encontrarme.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Então se virou para mim, e dei um passo assustado para trás, porque vi, tão claro quanto se eu estivesse parada em sua borda: o abismo. Incessante, negro e fastidioso, o vazio interminável de uma vida vivida por tempo demais.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Essa é sua verdadeira face, eu pensei conforme apertava os olhos na luz cegante. Os similares se atraem. Essa era sua alma transformada em carne, a verdade sobre ele deixada nua no sol brilhante, despida de mistério e sombra. Essa era a verdade por trás do seu rosto charmoso e de seus poderes milagrosos, a verdade que era o espaço vazio e morto entre as estrelas, o espaço árido preenchido de monstros amedrontados.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone