Nina Quotes

“Have any of you wondered what I did with all the cash Pekka Rollins gave us?"
"Guns?" asked Jesper.
"Ships?" queried Inej.
"Bombs?" suggested Wylan.
"Political bribes?" offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. "This is where you tell us how awful we are," she whispered.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a uniform to do it?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“And what did you do, Matthias? What did you do to me in you dreams?”

“Everything,” he said, as he turned to go, “Everything.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“You were early, Jesper,” Kaz said as he nudged Matthias towards the boat.

“I was on time.”

“For you, that’s early. Next time you plan to impress me give me some warning.”

“The animals are out, and I found you a boat. This is when a thank you would be in order.”

“Thank you, Jesper,” said Nina.

“You’re very welcome, gorgeous. See, Kaz? That’s how the civilised folk do.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“If you think I'm happy when you're not around, it's because I'm thinking of you.”
― Jamie McGuire, Providence

“Usually people don't start hating each other until a week into the job, but you two have a head start.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“One could plot violent espionage and still hope for dessert.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Little red bird, let me go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“What can I say to you that I haven't already said? What can I give you that I haven't already given? Is there anything of me that isn't yours already? My body, my mind, my heart, even my soul. Everything that is me belonged to you long before this, and it shall be yours long after this. I will follow you anywhere and everywhere you lead. I will keep you and anyone created with our love safe from all harm. From this day on, I choose you, my beloved, to be my wife. To live with you and laugh with you; to stand by your side, and sleep in your arms; to bring out the best in you always, and, for you, to be the most that I can. I promise to laugh with you in good times, to struggle with you in bad; to wipe your tears with my hands; to comfort you with my words; to mirror you with my soul; and savor every moment, happy or sad, until the end of our lives and beyond.”
― Jamie McGuire, Eden

“There was nothing else to do but keep moving forward. You chose your path. You walked it. You hoped to find a way home again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“He was quiet for a moment, and then he said, “Do you understand a little better now? What it’s like to face a power so alien? To face an enemy with such unnatural strength?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Isn't that how things are done around here?" asked Wylan. "We all tell Kaz we're fine and then do something stupid?"

"Are we that predictable?" said Inej.

Wylan and Matthias said in unison, "Yes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“But the world is out there, and it understands that the illusion of knowledge and freedom is not the same as the real thing. Eventually it will fade, and there are those who will do whatever it takes to make that happen sooner rather than later.”
― Aimee Carter, Pawn

“Matthias locked the cell door and hurried down the passage toward Nina, toward something more.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I closed my eyes and my body settled.Without thinking my body knew it'd do anything,anything, for Holden Maxwell.”
― Kristen Ashley, The Gamble

“Things can always get worse, but only quitters quit!”
― Nina Sakura, Ultra Maniac

“Closer, druskelle," she crooned, taunting.
He threw an arm over her, hooking her back against his chest. She let out a startled oof and shifted uneasily.
"Stop moving," he muttered. He'd been close to girls- not many, it was true- but none of them had been like her. She was indecently round.
"You're cold and clammy," she complained with a shiver. "It's like lying next to a burly squid."
"You told me to get closer!"
"Ease up a bit," she instructed and when he did, she flipped over to face him.
"What are you doing?" he asked, pulling back in a panic.
"Relax, druskelle. This isn't where I have my way with you."
His blue eyes narrowed. "I hate the way you talk.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I'm not afraid of you," he said irritably.
"Then you're as stupid as you look.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Rich men want to believe they deserve every penny they've got, so they forget what they owe to chance. Smart men are always looking for loopholes. They want an opportunity to game the system."
"So who's the hardest mark to swindle?" asked Nina.
"The toughest mark is an honest one," said Kaz. "Thankfully, they're always in short supply.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“How can I walk by a window full of wheels of cheese and feel nothing? I don't even know myself anymore.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I'd learned never to be a snob until I got to know a person's worth; and how can you get to know a person well if you don't have coffee together?”
― Costas Taktsis

“Nu-i nimic, mi-e mai uşor pe suflet dacă plâng...”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

“It was one thing to find happiness and lose it, quite another to have someone else's happiness thrust at you like an unwanted second slice of cake. Then again, she'd never refused a second slice of cake.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Tell them you hear the dead calling.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“The trick of acting is to believe the lie yourself, at least a little. Acting begins in the body. If you want to convince anyone of anything, you start with the way the body moves. It tells a thousand stories before you even open your mouth.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I don't want anyone getting ideas."
"A man doesn't need a bed to get ideas, Nina.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“What if I told you there's a rightness in this body? That ever since I understood what tailoring could do, I haven't been able to stop thinking about what might be?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I was lured though, thought Matthias. And it wasn't just her beauty.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Nina had wronged him, but she'd done it to protect her people. She'd hurt him, but she'd attempted everything in her power to make things right. She'd shown him in a thousand ways that she was honourable and strong and generous and very human, maybe more vividly human than anyone he'd ever known. And if she was, then Grisha weren't inherently evil. They were like anyone else - full of the potential to do great good, and also great harm. To ignore that would make Matthias the monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“They’ve told me she wants to date for at least two years before anything else. She wants to enjoy every stage, so that’s what we’ll do. I just figured I know now so why not ask you”
“So you’re gonna hold on to this ring for two years?”
“Yes sir, I am. Or for however long I need to.”
― K. Jamila, Mine Would Be You