Nistor Alina Quotes

#1. You let Mal come back for me. After you gave me your vow."
"He broke away," said Tamar.
I lifted a brow. The day Mal could break Tolya's hold was indeed a day of miracles.
Tolya hung his head and heaved his huge shoulders. "Forgive me," he said. "I couldn't be the one to keep him from you. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#2. You want," the Darkling mocked. I want to watch your tracker die slowly with my knife in his heart. I want to let the sea swallow you both. But our fates are entwined now, Alina, and there's nothing either of us can do about that. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#3. Tell me, Alina, has he claimed you yet?"
"Claimed me? Like a peninsula? #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#4. I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#5. Don't waste your breath, lovely."
"But you don't even know what I was going to say."
"You were about to plead your case, tell me you need my help, you can't pay me but your heart is true, the usual thing."
I blinked. That was exactly what I'd been about to do. "But - "
"Waste of breath, waste of time, waste of a fine afternoon," he said. "I don't like to see prisoners mistreated, but that's as far as my interest goes."
"You - "
He shook his head. "And I'm notoriously immune to tales of woe. So unless your story involves a talking dog, I don't want to hear it. Does it?"
"Does it what?"
"Involve a talking dog."
"No," I snapped. "It involves the future of a kingdom and everyone in it."
"A pity," he said, and took me by the arm, leading me to the aft hatch.
"I thought you worked for Ravka," I said angrily.
"I work for the fattest purse."
"So you'd sell your country to the Darkling for a little gold?"
"No, for a lot of gold," he said. "I assure you, I don't come cheap. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#6. The police officers were carrying wrinkled clothing in their gloved hands when they returned. They spread the items out on the table for me to identify. For a moment I saw his hands on my panties, flinging them to the floor. #Quote by Alina Klein

#7. The sight had been Jackaby's beautiful burden and his terrible gift. And now it was mine.
...
"The Seer is dead," said Alina.
"No," I said, swallowing hard. "She's not. #Quote by William Ritter

#8. I would have been different too, without you. Weaker, reckless." He smiled slightly. "Afraid of the dark." He brushed the tears from my cheeks. I wasn't sure when they'd started. "But no matter who or what I was, I would have been yours. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#9. Fight me as long as you're able.
You will find I have far more practice with eternity #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#10. Beside me, Kenadie threw her arms up in the air with a whoop and started dancing. Her dark curls bounced wildly. The girl couldn't dance, but that seemed fitting. #Quote by Alina Klein

#11. We are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us ... #Quote by Alina Radoi

#12. Read everything you can get your hands on. #Quote by Alina Bronsky

#13. I was afraid to show doubt or indecision, and there were days when I felt like I was being torn down to nothing by the constant weight of responsibility and expectation." - Alina Starkov #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#14. Belonging: that was the name for it. More tempting than sex and so far out of the question as to be unthinkable. #Quote by Angela B. Wade

#15. You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#16. Mercy." He said the word as if he were tasting something unfamiliar. "I could be merciful. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#17. It seems to work better than jabbing them with a stick," he said.
"Less fun."
"My jabbing arm is tired. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#18. Missing Alina was worse than a terminal illness. At least when you were terminal you knew the pain was going to end eventually. But there was no light at the end of my tunnel. Grief was going to devour me, day into night, night into day, and although I might feel like I was dying from it, might even wish I was, I never would. I was going to have to walk around with a hole in my heart forever. I was going to hurt for my sister until the day I died. If you don't know what I mean or you think I'm being melodramatic, then you've never really loved anyone. #Quote by Karen Marie Moning

#19. I rolled my eyes. "For defending my honor, you dullard."
He yanked me beneath a shadowed awning. I had a moment's panic when I thought he'd spotted trouble, but then his arms were around me and his lips were pressed to mine.
When he finally drew back, my cheeks were warm and my legs had gone wobbly.
"Just to be clear," he said, "I'm not really interested in defending your honor."
"Understood," I managed, hoping I didn't sound too ridiculously breathless. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#20. I had tried to teach her that nobody should be able to see when you were scared. That nobody should be able to tell when you were uncertain. That you shouldn't show it when you loved someone. And that you smiled with particular affection at someone you hated. #Quote by Alina Bronsky

#21. Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#22. You're mad."

"I know it pleases you to think so. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#23. In case you've forgotten, I tried to kill you."

"And failed."

"Here's to second chances. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#24. They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morning. There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy's arms around me and watch the wind move the clouds. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#25. There are rumors that you died on the Fold. People have been selling off parts of you all over Ravka and West Ravka for months. You're quite the good luck charm."
"Those are supposed to be my fingers?"
"Knuckles, toes, fragments of rib."
I felt sick. I looked around, hoping to spot Mal, needing to see something familiar.
"Of course," Nikolai continued, "if half of those were really your toes, you'd have about a hundred feet. But superstition is a powerful thing. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#26. The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream. #Quote by Alina Stefanescu

#27. At Keramzin, I had a doll I made out of an old sock that I used to talk to whenever he was away hunting. Maybe that would make me feel better."
"You were an odd little girl."
"You have no idea. What did you and Tolya play with?"
"The skulls of our enemies."
I saw the glint in her eye, and we both burst out laughing. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#28. Mal shouted. I heard scuffling behind me and knew Tolya had taken hold of him. "Alina!" His voice was raw white wood, torn from the heart of a tree. I did not turn. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#29. I've never met a man who can say so much without saying anything at all," I fumed as Nikolai walked me back to the Little Palace after a particularly wretched session. "There's got to be something you can do."
"Like what?"
"Get one of his prize ponies to kick him in the head. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#30. It's true," I said softly. "You are stronger, wiser, infinite in experience." I leaned forward and whispered, my lips brushing the shell of his ear. "But I am an apt pupil. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#31. Then what should he call me?"

"He should not address you directly at all."

I sighed. "Next time he has something to say, I'll have him write me a letter. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#32. Not every man," I murmured.

Nikolai followed my gaze. "Yes, Alina, even your stalwart champion has his price." He turned back to me, his hazel eyes thoughtful. "And I suspect I'm looking at it right now. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#33. You are all I've ever wanted," he said. "You are the whole of my heart. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#34. On the fourth day, we came upon a cavern with a perfectly still pool that gave the illusion of a night sky, its depths sparkling with tiny luminescent fish.

Mal and I were slightly ahead of the others. He dipped his hand in, then yelped and drew back. "They bite."

"Serves you right," I said. "'Oh, look, a dark lake full of something shiny. Let me put my hand in it.'"

"I can't help being delicious," he said, that familiar cocky grin flashing across his face like light over water. Then he seemed to catch himself. He shouldered his pack, and I knew he was about to move away from me.

I wasn't sure where the words came from: "You didn't fail me, Mal."

He wiped his damp hand on his thigh. "We both know better."

"We're going to be traveling together for who knows how long. Eventually, you're going to have to talk to me."

"I'm talking to you right now."

"See? Is this so terrible?"

"It wouldn't be," he said, gazing at me steadily, "if all I wanted to do was talk."

My cheeks heated. You don't want this, I told myself. But I felt my edges curl like a piece of paper held too close to fire. "Mal - "

"I need to keep you safe, Alina, to stay focused on what matters. I can't do that if . . ." He let out a long breath. "You were meant for more than me, and I'll die fighting to give it to you. But please don't ask me to pretend it's easy."

He plunged ahead into th #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#35. Do you ask your heart to beat or your lungs to breathe? Your power serves you because that is it's purpose, because it cannot help but serve you. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#36. That first winter, when it was time for her friends to leave, the girl ventured out into the show to say goodbye, and the stunning raven-haired Squaller handed her another gift.
"A blue kefta," said the math teacher, shaking her head. "What would she do with that?"
"Maybe she knew a Grisha who died," replied the cook, taking note of the tears that filled the girl's eyes. They did not see the note that read, You will always be one of us. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo

#37. They say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men ... #Quote by Alina Radoi

#38. The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand ... #Quote by Alina Radoi

#39. The woman said something to Roman. He stopped, turned to her, and shook his staff.
She crossed her arms. I couldn't see her face, but I read the body language well enough. I shake my magic stick at you!" "Let me tell you what you can do with your stick ... " #Quote by Ilona Andrews

#40. And I wonder if people do this all the time: fall for people because of their ability to pick getaway cars; or fall for people because of the way they look when they think nobody is watching; or fall for people because of the things they say, or the way they look at them, or the things they give up, or the things they cannot do.
-Alina Chase (pg 262) #Quote by Megan Miranda

#41. With a step forward and one backward, always between yesterday and tomorrow, we live in a question without answer: does the night end or the morning begin? And if it is a day when we can change everything, why don't we see it, although our eyes are wide open? #Quote by Natașa Alina Culea