Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo

“Do you take anything seriously?” “Not if I can help it. Makes life so tedious.”

“Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”

“I thought the end of the world would be more exciting.”

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

“The Darkling is powerful, but so are we.

but she’d said it: When we kill the Darkling. Tentative, frightened, but it still sounded suspiciously like hope.

No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all.

“You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?” I asked as I closed the book’s cover and headed for the door. “They always end up dead.”