{"author":"Leigh Bardugo","author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo","total_quotes":109,"quotes":[{"text":"Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["battle","inspirational","power","sisterhood","war","warbringer","wonder-woman"],"id":132,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"You have your own problems right now, Zenik, said a voice in her head. Stop worrying about saving the world and save your own ass. Sometimes her inner voice could be very wise.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["inner-voice","nina-zenik","saving-the-world","stop-worrying","wisdom"],"id":296,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. 'If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["beautiful","friend","friendship","kiss","life","love","loyalty","profound","unconscious"],"id":4832,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["ana-kuya","dream"],"id":6296,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["love","matthias-helvar","nina-zenik","shame"],"id":8612,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"You're very welcome,' she said, giving my hair a hard tug. 'You should be used to being gawked at by now.'And yet I'm not.'Well, if it gets too bad, give me a signal, and I'll get up on the banquet table, toss my skirt over my head, and do a little dance. That way no one will be looking at you.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["funny"],"id":8653,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"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.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["darkness","emptiness","endurance","light"],"id":11597,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"What is she to you anyway?'Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["inspirational","leigh-bardugo","love","shadow-and-bone"],"id":24534,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"I was done with hesitation. It wasn't just that we'd run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird's power. I'd simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creature's life. But I missed the girl who had shown the stag mercy, who had been strong enough to turn away from the lure of power, who had believed in something more. Another casualty of this war.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["mercy","power","war"],"id":32220,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"David looked at me, then, the regret plain on his face. No matter what I said, we both knew the hard truth. We do our best. We try. And usually, it makes no difference at all.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["alina","david","sad","siege-and-storm"],"id":36439,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":109,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}