Leigh Bardugo
YA fiction tends to have a finite quality. You're looking toward a goal - prom or graduation or revolution - and we leave these characters after a moment of tremendous transformation.Collection: Graduation
When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.Collection: Mean
Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.Collection: Ideas
The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.Collection: Weight
Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.Collection: Weakness
Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.Collection: Wish
Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.Collection: Ruined
What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.Collection: Men
The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings?Collection: Wings
I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.Collection: Powerful
I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.Collection: Stupid
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.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Stars
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.Collection: Heart
There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.Collection: Trying
There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.Collection: Smell
Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.Collection: Laughter
And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.Collection: Lizards
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.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Taken
Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.Collection: Grief
Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.Collection: Mean
You and I are going to change the world.Collection: World
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.Collection: Men
Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.Collection: Way
You want a love story too? There's none to be had.Collection: Stories
But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.Collection: Answers