Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #3)

by Leigh Bardugo

supposed we’d made a kind of peace, but it wasn’t an easy one. Or maybe we had just accepted what I would become, that our paths would inevitably diverge.

“Saints, Alina. I hope you weren’t looking to me to be the voice of reason. I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret.”

“Remind me to stay on your good side.” “Darling,” she said, turning one scarred cheek to me, then the other, “I don’t have a good side anymore.”

“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it.

“Know that I loved you,” she said to the Darkling. “Know that it was not enough.”

Baghra

How could he be so cruel and still so human?

I couldn’t think too far ahead. Every time I did, I felt panic tugging at me. It was like being underground again, no air to breathe, waiting for the world to come down around me.

there was no safe place for my thoughts to wander. The past was full of horrors, and the future left me with that breathless, rising panic.

“You haven’t seen me mean. When you do, you’ll require a very big hanky.” He snorted. “To dry my tears?” “To stanch the bleeding.”

“I do not like this,” said Harshaw. “I do not like this at all.”

“I am surrounded by fools.”

- Zora

You keep storing up all that anger and grief. Eventually it spills over. Or you drown in it.”

- Mal

“I have lived a long life, rich in grief. My tears are long since spent. If I still felt as you do, if I ached as you do, I could not have borne this eternity.”

- The Darkling

“I do love it when you quote me.” He sighed. “If only I weren’t so damnably wise.”

He rolled his eyes. “What is your aversion to the word yes?”

You will always be one of us.