Leigh Bardugo Quotes

• When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.

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  Mean, People, Impossible

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.120, Macmillan

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• Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.

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  Ideas, Anything Worth Doing, Bad Ideas

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.101, Macmillan

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

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  Weight

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.187, Macmillan

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

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  Weakness, Needs, Feels

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

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  Wish, Stones, Bricks

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

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  Ruined

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

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  Men, Greed, Infinite

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Shadow and Bone”, p.123, Hachette UK

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

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  Wings, Bird, Doe

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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

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  Stupid, Being Stupid, My Own

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.187, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.ew.com

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• 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.

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  Stars, Prayer, Loneliness

  Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.234, Macmillan

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

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  Powerful, Enemy, Important

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.81, Macmillan

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

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  Heart, Despise

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

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  Trying, Too Much, Tomorrow

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

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  Smell, Ink, Paper

  Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone: Chapters 1-5”, p.17, Macmillan

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

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  Laughter, Arguing, Insult

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.187, Macmillan

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

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  Lizards, Hawks, Born

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Shadow and Bone”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Believe, Faces, Problem

  Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.72, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Character, Mean, Writing

  "YA masters Rae Carson and Leigh Bardugo talk world building and feminism -- exclusive". Interview with Isabella Biedenharn, ew.com. September 24, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Taken, Men, He Man

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• Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

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  Grief, Sustenance

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

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  Mean, Next, Traps

  Leigh Bardugo (2017). “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic”, p.50, Imprint

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• You and I are going to change the world.

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  World, Changing The World

  Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone”, p.172, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Men, People, Rifles

  Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone: Chapters 1-5”, p.9, Macmillan

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

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  Way, Calm, Calm Down

  Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm”, p.188, Macmillan

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