Shadow and Bone Quotes

“At night, the boy and the girl lie curled around each other in the belly of the ship. He holds her tight when she wakes from another nightmare, her teeth chattering, her ears ringing with the terrified screams of the men and women she left behind on the broken skiff, her limbs trembling with remembered power. “It’s all right,” he whispers in the darkness. “It’s all right.” She wants to believe him, but she’s afraid to close her eyes. The”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“You do not know him, Alina.” It was the first time she had ever used my name. “But I do.” I stood there watching dark spirals unfurl around her, trying to comprehend what I was seeing. Searching Baghra’s strange features, I saw the explanation clearly written there. I saw the ghost of what must have once been a beautiful woman, a beautiful woman who gave birth to a beautiful son. “You’re his mother,” I whispered numbly. She nodded. “I am not mad. I am the only person who knows what he truly is, what he truly intends. And I am telling you that you must run.” The Darkling had claimed he didn’t know what Baghra’s power was. Had he lied to me? I”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

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

“I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“The problem with wanting,” he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, “is that it makes us weak.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“otkazat’sya, “the abandoned.” It was another word for orphan”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“But there was something a little silly about eating “hearty peasant fare” off porcelain plates, beneath a dome inlaid with real gold.
Saints forbid we forget we’re real Ravkans.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“We were being hunted by the most powerful man in Ravka. But we were friends again, and sleep came more easily than it had in a long time.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“But worse were the dreams of the pale prince who pressed his lips to her neck, who placed his hands on the collar that circled her throat and called forth her power in a blaze of bright sunlight”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I had no idea what the future held or what waited for me at the end of this grueling journey and yet, somehow, I wasn't miserable. I'd been lonely my whole life, but I'd never been truly alone before, and it wasn't nearly as scary as I'd imagined.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I can't make big changes, just small ones. Even out your skin. Do something with that mousy hair of yours. I've perfected myself, but I've had my whole life to do it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“The land that the Unsea covers was once green and good, fertile and rich. Now it is dead and barren, crawling with abominations. The Darkling will push its boundaries north into Fjerda, south to the Shu Han. Those who do not bow to him will see their kingdoms turned to desolate wasteland and their people devoured by ravening volcra.” I gaped at her in horror, shocked by the images she had conjured. The old woman had clearly lost her mind. “Baghra,” I said gently, “I think you have some kind of fever.” Or you’ve gone completely senile. “Finding the stag is a good thing. It means I can help the Darkling destroy the Fold.” “No!” she cried, and it was almost a howl. “He never intended to destroy it. The Fold is his creation.” I”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I saw how he looked at you,” he said. “I like how he looks at me!” I practically shouted. He shook his head, that bitter smile still playing on his lips. I wanted to smack it right off his face. “Just admit it,” he sneered. “He owns you.” “He owns you, too, Mal,” I lashed back. “He owns us all.” That wiped away his smile. “No he doesn’t,” Mal said fiercely. “Not me. Not ever.” “Oh really? Don’t you have someplace to be, Mal? Don’t you have orders to follow?” Mal stood up straight, his face cold. “Yes,” he said. “Yes, I do.” He turned sharply and walked out the door. For a moment, I stood there, quivering with anger, and then I ran to the doorway. I got all the way down the steps before I stopped myself. The tears that had been threatening to overflow finally did, coursing down my cheeks. I wanted to run after him, to take back what I’d said, to beg him to stay, but I’d spent my life running after Mal. Instead, I stood in silence and let him go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“What’s Baghra’s power, anyway?” I asked, the thought occurring to me for the first time. She was an amplifier like the Darkling, but he had his own power, too. “I’m not sure,” he said. “I think she was a Tidemaker. No one around here is old enough to remember.” He looked down at me. The cold air had put a flush in his cheeks, and the lamplight shone in his gray eyes. “Alina, if I tell you that I still believe we can find the stag, would you think I’m mad?” “Why would you care what I think?” He looked genuinely baffled. “I don’t know,” he said. “But I do.” And then he kissed me. It happened so suddenly that I barely had time to react. One moment, I was staring into his slate-colored eyes, and the next, his lips were pressed to mine. I felt that familiar sense of surety melt through me as my body sang with sudden heat and my heart jumped into a skittery dance. Then, just as suddenly, he stepped back. He looked as surprised as I felt. “I”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I think it is because the Grisha do not suffer the way the Saints suffer, the way the people suffer.” “Maybe,” I said absently. “But you have suffered, haven’t you, Alina Starkov? And I think … yes. I think you will suffer more.” My head jerked up. I thought he might be threatening me, but his eyes were full of a strange sympathy that was even more terrifying. I”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Only you could contemplate imminent death and just say 'all right.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“The living world had disappeared. Darkness fell around us, black, weightless, and absolute. We were in the Fold.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“The king is a child."
My mouth fell open in shock and I looked around nervously, afraid someone had overheard. These people seemed to speak treason as easily as breathing. Genya didn't look remotely disturbed by the Darkling's words.
The Darkling must have noticed my discomfort, because he said, "But today, you've made him a very happy child.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Dreaming of dancing with your dark prince?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“He sounded so sincere, so reasonable, less a creature of relentless ambition than a man who believed he was doing the right thing for his people. Despite all he’d done and all he intended, I did almost believe him. Almost.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Fine. Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“The problem with waiting is that it makes us weak”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“How much harder is it to walk with your feet bound? Or to talk with a hand over your mouth?' she lectured. 'Why do you waste all of your strength fighting your true nature?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I’m not Grisha. I’m a mapmaker. I’m not even a very good mapmaker.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“It wasn't wise to disappoint kings. Or Darklings.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“THE SERVANTS CALLED them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen to steal the last of the summer peaches.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“You’re wearing his symbol,” he observed, his glance flicking to the little gold charm hanging at my neckline. “His symbol and his colour.”
“They’re just clothes.”
Mal’s lips twisted in a cynical smile, a smile so different from the one I knew and loved that I almost flinched. “You don’t really believe that.”
“What difference does it make what I wear?”
“The clothes, the jewels, even the way you look. He’s all over you.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“He wore his weariness like an elegant cloak, but it was still there.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“You begged me for clemency once,” he called over the dead reaches of the Fold, over the hungry shrieks of the horrors he had made. “Is this your idea of mercy?” Another bullet hit the sand, only inches from us. Yes, I thought as the power rose up inside me, the mercy you taught me. I raised my hand and brought it down in a blazing arc, slashing through the air. An earth-shaking crack echoed through the Fold as the sandskiff split in half. Raw screams filled the air and the volcra shrieked in their frenzy. I”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone