Leigh Bardugo Quotes

There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.

Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.

You and I are going to change the world.

And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.

I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.

But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

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.

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.