Brittney Rathjen > Brittney's Quotes

“This is the problem with even lesser demons. They come to your doorstep in velvet coats and polished shoes. They tip their hats and smile and demonstrate good table manners. They never show you their tails.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“We were not made to please princes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“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, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“This is the problem with making a thing forbidden. It does nothing but build an ache in the heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Bad fates do not always follow those who deserve them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“They pray that their children will be brave and clever and strong, that they will tell the true stories instead of the easy ones. They pray for sons with red eyes and daughters with horns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“She held each sorrow like a chafing grain and grew her grudges like pearls.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“I will love an honest monster before I swear loyalty to a treacherous king.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“The storm has brought Ulla to the cold shelter of the northern islands, to the darkened caves and flat black pools where she remains to this day, waiting for the lonely, the ambitious, the clever, the frail, for all those willing to strike a bargain. She never waits for long.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“Do not behave as a tyrant and then tell me to scold a tyrant to behave. Show mercy and mercy you may be shown”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“And now I say to you, Yeva Luchcova: will you remain here with the father who tried to sell you, or the prince who hoped to buy you, or the man too weak to solve his riddles for himself? Or will you come with me and be the bride to nothing but the shore?”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“It was the wounds from the thicket that had proven all the sweet blossoms and starlight had been real.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“-My father never taught me mercy.
-And can you not learn?”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

“[referencing that what bothered her about Hansel and Gretel was the weak willed father who let the evil stepmother send the children into the woods not once but twice, and the unease of children reunited happily with their father] : In many ways that unease has guided me through these stories, that note of trouble that I think many of us hear in familiar tales, because we know - even as children - that impossible tasks are an odd way to choose a spouse, that predators come in many guises, that a prince's whims are often cruel. The more I listened to that note of warning, the more inspiration I found.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic