The Grisha Trilogy Quotes

“Yuyeh sesh,” Tolya called after her in Shu.
“Ni weh sesh,” she shouted over her shoulder. And then she was gone.
“What does that mean?”
“It’s something our father taught us,” Tolya replied. “Yuyeh sesh: ‘despise your heart.’ But that’s the direct translation. The real meaning is more like ‘do what needs to be done—be cruel if you have to.’”
“What’s the other part?”
“Ni weh sesh? ‘I have no heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Don't let me be alone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Sorry,” I mumbled. “Maybe you’re hungry,” said Zoya. “I always get mean when I’m hungry.” “Are you hungry all the time?” asked Harshaw. “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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“I am not Ruined, I am Ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Fine make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“I wondered if those paths would just keep taking us further and further apart, and if a day might come when we would be strangers to each other once again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“Fine, make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Shadow and Bone Trilogy: Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising

“Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“I’d been lonely my whole life, but I’d never been truly alone before, and it wasn’t nearly as scary as I’d imagined.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“I'm the sun summoner, it gets dark when I say it does" - Alina Starkov”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“The Squallers lifted their arms. The sails billowed open with a loud snap, and our skiff surged forward into the Fold.
At first, it was like drifting into a thick cloud of smoke, but there was no heat, no smell of fire. Sounds seemed to dampen and the world became still. I watched the sandskiffs ahead of us slide into the darkness, fading from view, one after another. I realized that I could no longer see the prow of our skiff and then that I could not see my own hand on the railing. I looked back over my shoulder. The living world had disappeared. Darkness fell around us, black, weightless, and absolute. We were in the Fold.
It was like standing at the end of everything.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Baghra had claimed that the volcra had once been men and women, victims of the unnatural power unleashed by the Darkling’s greed. It might have been my mind playing tricks, but I thought I heard something not just horrible, but human in their cries.
When they were almost upon us, the Darkling gripped my arm and simply said, “Now.”
That invisible hand took hold of the power inside me, and I felt it stretch, reaching through the darkness of the Fold, seeking the light. It came to me with a speed and fury that nearly knocked me from my feet, breaking over me in a shower of brilliance and warmth.
The Fold was alight, as bright as noon, as if its impenetrable darkness had never been. I saw a long reach of blanched sand, hulks of what looked like shipwrecks dotting the dead landscape, and above it all, a teeming flock of volcra. They screamed in terror, their writhing gray bodies gruesome in the bright sunlight. This is the truth of him, I thought as I squinted in the dazzling light. Like calls to like. This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened monsters.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Lui si accasciò di nuovo sulla sedia. «Bene» disse con una stanca stretta di spalle. «Decidi pure che io sono il cattivo.» Posò il bicchiere vuoto e si alzò. «Vieni qui.»

Rabbrividii di paura, ma mi costrinsi ad alzarmi e a coprire la distanza tra noi. Lui mi studiò alla luce del fuoco. Allungò una mano e toccò il collare di Morozova, allargò le lunghe dita sopra l’osso ruvido, poi le fece scivolare sul mio collo e mi prese il viso nel palmo. Io provai un senso di repulsione, ma sentii anche la sua forza sicura, inebriante. Odiavo che avesse ancora effetto su di me.

«Mi hai tradito» disse piano.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Fine, make me your villain”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn’t think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“And I guess it’s a reminder that wanting and deserving aren’t the same thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry. Don’t argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter. “You didn’t laugh at the Fjerdan captain,” I observed. “That wasn’t an insult. It was a challenge,” he said. “Know the difference.” Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you’re human, but never when you feel it. Don’t wish for bricks when you can build from stone. Use whatever or whoever is in front of you. Being a leader means someone is always watching you. Get them to follow the little orders, and they’ll follow the big ones. It’s okay to flout expectations, but never disappoint them.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable
-Nikolai Lantsov(Grisha trilogy)”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that. 1.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“Every time I’d tried to predict my fate, my life had been upended.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“Did you miss me, Alina? Did you miss me when you were gone?”
“Every day,” I said honestly.
“I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I’d catch myself walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I’d seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I’d realise that you weren’t there any more, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I’ve risked my life for you. I’ve walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I’d do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don’t tell me we don’t belong together,” he said fiercely. He was very close now, and my heart was suddenly hammering in my chest. “I’m sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.”
He lowered his head, and I felt his lips on mine.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Shadow and Bone Trilogy: Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising

“What does that mean?” “It’s something our father taught us,” Tolya replied. “Yuyeh sesh: ‘despise your heart.’ But that’s the direct translation. The real meaning is more like ‘do what needs to be done—be cruel if you have to.’” “What’s the other part?” “Ni weh sesh? ‘I have no heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“The only person in the world who truly knew me had decided I wasn’t worth the effort of a few words. But I was holding on still.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“Suffering is cheap as clay and twice as common. What matters is what each man makes of it. Now,” she said with a rap of her stick, “lessons.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“She smiled then, a small smile of such aching sadness that it was hard to look at. “You think I don’t love my son,” she said. “But I do. It is because I love him that I will not let him put himself beyond redemption.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“Then she turned to me, and I took a startled step back, because I saw it, as clearly as if I had been standing at its edge: the abyss. Ceaseless, black, and yawning, the unending emptiness of a life lived too long.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Grisha Trilogy

“Senti un arrebato de gratitud tan dulce que hizo que me doliera la garganta. Y con ella vino el miedo. Tenerlos cerca era un lujo que iba a pagar: significaba que tenía más que perder.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“No dejas de acumular toda la rabia y el dolor, y al final se acaba derramando. O te ahogas en ellos”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy

“—Una vez más —me pidió—. Di mi nombre una vez más. Era antiquísimo, eso lo sabía. Pero en ese momento no era más que un chico, un chico brillante, bendecido con demasiado poder, con una carga para toda la eternidad. —Aleksander”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy