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“Bad fates do not always follow those who deserve them.” (The Language of Thorns Quotes)
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“I can bear ugliness, I find the only thing I cannot live with death.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“I will love an honest monster before I swear loyalty to a treacherous king.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“My life began with wanting something for myself.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“She had not been much to look at in her youth, and she knew well that only courage is required for an adventure.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“She held each sorrow like a chafing grain and grew her grudges like pearls.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“The beast might shout and snarl, and he might well devour her, but he’d at least been interested enough to listen to her speak.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“There is no pain like the pain of transformation.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Those meant to love us most are not always the ones who do.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“Wanting is why people get up in the morning. It gives them something to dream of at night. The more I wanted, the more I became like them, the more real I became.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“We were not made to please princes.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“You know how the stories go. Interesting things only happen to pretty girls; you will be home by sunset.”
Leigh Bardugo
The Language of Thorns
“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
