Leigh Bardugo is an American young adult and fantasy author, best known for the Grisha trilogy, which has sold over one million copies.
I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.
There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.
I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.
I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.
People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.
I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms.
Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.
But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.
Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.
Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.
Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.
I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.
When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?
And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.
What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.
The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.
My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.
Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.