This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do.

— Leigh Bardugo

Van Deck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers.

— Leigh Bardugo

Waiting was the part of the criminal life, so many people got wrong. They wanted to act instead of hold fast and gather information. They wanted to know instantly without having to learn. Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn't like the weather, you didn't rush into the storm - you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet.

— Leigh Bardugo

We can't help the way we're born. We can't help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves.

— Leigh Bardugo

We can’t help the way we’re born. We can’t help what we are, only what life we choose to make for ourselves

— Leigh Bardugo

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

— Leigh Bardugo

What about the nobodies and the nothing's, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.

— Leigh Bardugo

What is she to you anyway?"" Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch.

— Leigh Bardugo

When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she’d kept from raising her hand because she didn’t want to seem too smart or too eager?

— Leigh Bardugo

When we get our money, you can burn Kruger to keep you warm."" I'm going to pay someone to burn my Kruger for me."" Why don't you pay someone else to pay someone to burn your Kruger for you? That's what the big players do.

— Leigh Bardugo