Emily > Emily's Quotes

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“I have been made to protect you. Even in death, I will find a way.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“You can only sharpen a blade so far,” Kaz said as he joined them at the front of the church. “In the end, it comes down to the quality of the metal.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Choose your words carefully, even the words you think, because they become seeds, and seeds become history.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“I do want tomorrows with you, Jase. I want a lifetime of tomorrows.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Blink last.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“There is magic in everything, only you must watch for it. It does not come from spells or potions or the sky, nor by special delivery of the gods. It is all around you.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves, Dance of Thieves

“Seconds could change everything. Seconds could erase one path and send you reeling down another.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Tell me a riddle, Kazi.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Gold pleases men, but blood serves the gods, because in the end, your life is all you have to give.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Dance of Thieves

“Waiting for someone else to write your history was no way to live. Sometimes it was only a certain way to die.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“You have not stolen my heart, but I give it freely”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“Who will write our story, Jase?
We will, Kazi. You and I will write our own story.
And side by side, every day, that is what we do.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“Every one of my tomorrows is yours”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“But I had loved and been loved deeply and completely, not once but twice. I would not trade that for all the riches that Montegue had to offer.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves

“Truly great leaders don’t have to chase love. It finds them.”
― Mary E. Pearson, Vow of Thieves