The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Grishaverse, #0.5 & 2.5 & 2.6)

by Leigh Bardugo

You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled—not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”

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 the ones who do.”

Bad fates do not always follow those who deserve them.”

“I will love an honest monster before I swear loyalty to a treacherous king.”

only courage is required for an adventure.

They pray that their children will be brave and clever and strong, that they will tell the true stories instead of the easy ones.

“I can bear ugliness,” he said. “I find the one thing I cannot live with is death.”

The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it.

Now, if you have been foolish enough to wander from the path, it is up to you to make your way back to the road.

remember that to use a thing is not to own it.

Wanting is why people get up in the morning. It gives them something to dream of at night.

This is the problem with making a thing forbidden. It does nothing but build an ache in the heart.

“Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.”

What harm can a little hope do?

But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.