A. > A. 's Quotes

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

“There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.

Long minutes passed. I didn’t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.

“Then I’d be alone, too," he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
Nikolai plucked an invisible piece of dust from his sleeve. “Yes,” he said. “They just do it in better clothes.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I've seen what you truly are," said the Darkling, "and I've never turned away. I never will. Can he say the same?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“We are alike,” he said, “as no one else is, as no one else will ever be.”

The truth of it rang through me. Like calls to like.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“He tapped the sun over his heart. "I came here for you. You're my flag. You're my nation.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I can’t decide if you’re a fearmonger or a coward.”
“And I can’t decide if you’re an idiot or an idiot.”
― leigh bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You heard Prince Perfect," Mal said, and joined us at the table. Nikolai grinned. "I've had a lot of nicknames, but that one is easily the most accurate.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“And there’s no way I’m leaving you alone with Prince Perfect.”
“So you don’t trust me to resist his charms?”
“I don’t even trust myself. I’ve never seen anyone work a crowd the way he does. I’m pretty sure the rocks and trees are getting ready to swear fealty to him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Have you looked in a mirror lately?"
"I think you do that enough for the both of us.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Like calls to like. I'd sense it when the Hummingbird entered the Unsea, but I'd been too afraid to embrace it. This time, I didn't fight. I let go of my fear, my guilt, my shame. There was darkness inside me. He had put it there, and I would no longer deny it. The volcra, the nichevo'ya, they were my monsters, all of them. And he was my monster too.

"My power is yours", I repeated. His arms tightened around me. "And yours is mine," I whispered against his lips.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You two have a bad habit of acting like fools and calling it heroic.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“You were an odd little girl."
"You have no idea. What did you and Toyla play with?"
"The skulls of our enemies.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Don't feel too bad, tracker," said the Darkling. "All men can be made fools.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“My mother was an oyster,” he said with a wink. “And I’m the pearl.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Again, the Darkling shook his head. “You two make it so easy. I prick him, you bleed.”
“And you can’t begin to understand that, can you?”
He reached out and tapped Morozova’s collar, letting his fingers graze the skin of my throat. Even that faint touch opened the connection between us, and a rush of power vibrated through me like a bell being struck.
“I understand enough,” he said softly.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“Just waiting, hoping that you'd miss me enough to tell them all to go to hell.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“No, Tolya, your gifts lie elewhere," Sturmhond said soothingly. "Mostly in the celebrated fields of killing and maiming.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“I’m here, little one,” came a voice made for coaxing
secrets from the heart. “Sleep now. We’ll talk when it’s
time.”
“Yes, sir,” she said, now knowing where she was. She
surrendered to sleep again.
The most familiar darkness…her darkness…she was
home.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“She seemed like the type of woman who'd help you forget about your headache by setting your bed on fire.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“It's not morning until you're awake. And it's not night until you're asleep in your bed under my roof. And I could go on and on but hope is a horrible thing, and I love you too much to give you any.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“You don't love him. You only love that he loves you.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren