Ravka Quotes

“I would make you my queen because I want you. I want you all the time.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“I have so many good qualities," Sturmhond said, "It can be hard to choose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“The grand lady. The crying child. The drowning man who would drag you under rather than be saved. This country that took so much and gave nothing back. Maybe because he knew that he and his country were the same.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“You will wed a Taban sister who craves a crown," she said. "Or a wealthy Kerch girl, or maybe a Fjerdan royal. You will have heirs and a future. I'm not the queen Ravka needs.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“When the last of the foreign dignitaries had filled the hall, Genya and David entered. Genya looked serene, but he could see the strain around the corners of her mouth. David seemed distracted as always.
“No need to worry,” said Genya. “You’re doing marvellously.”
David frowned, his face thoughtful. “So when you said This is a fiasco—”
“It’s a figure of speech.”
“But—”
“Be silent, David.”
“That bad?” whispered Isaak miserably.
Genya offered him a brittle approximation of a smile. “At best, our visitors think Nikolai is eccentric, and at worst insane.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I'm not a monster, Alina. Despite what you have heard.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“But there was something a little silly about eating “hearty peasant fare” off porcelain plates, beneath a dome inlaid with real gold.
Saints forbid we forget we’re real Ravkans.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“He would not rest until his country could too.
And he would never turn his back on a wounded man - even if that man was him.
'Nikolai Nothing', snarled the demon. 'Ravka will never be yours'.
Perhaps not. But if you loved a thing, the work was never done. 'Remember who you are'.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I’m coming with you,” said Zoya.
Nikolai cast her a long look. “I’m all for reckless choices, Zoya, but this is a delicate matter. You will have to bite your tongue.”
“Until it bleeds.” She wanted a closer look at the people gilding the Darkling’s memory. She wanted to remember each of their faces.
The gate rose and a hush descended as the king rode out of the city and into the crowd. The pilgrims might not care for Ravka’s young ruler, but there were plenty of people who had come to the capital on other businesses, to trade or visit the lower town. To them, Nikolai Lantsov was not just a king or a war hero. He was the man who had restored order after the chaos of the
civil war, who had granted them years of peace, who had promised them prosperity and worked to see it done. They went to their knees. Re’b Ravka, they shouted. Korol Rezni. Son of Ravka. King of Scars.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Ravka might fall. The Grisha and the Second Army might scatter. But the world would be safe from Elizaveta and the Starless One.
She thought of the cubs in the snow, of Liliyana shelling hazelnuts by the fire, of the Hall of the Golden Dome back at the Little Palace, crowded with Grisha, laughter echoing off its walls before the Darkling attacked. She thought of Nikolai facing the demon, the thorn like a dagger in his hands.
This time I saved you, she thought as she collapsed. This time, I got it right.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“I've covered almost two hundred miles on horseback. I haven't had a good night's sleep in a week, and I've nearly been killed twice. So before I do anything else, you're going to have to tell me who you are and why it's so very important that you get my clothes off.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“We have some bad news.
There's more?
It's Ravka. there's always more.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Nikolai had always understood that he and Ravka were the same. He just hadn't understood how: He was not the crying child or even the drowning man. He was the forever soldier, eternally at war, unable to ever lay down his arms and heal.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Foxes go to ground in the winter.
But they don't fear the cold.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“At least he'd fought to end as their king.
But maybe Ravka didn't need a king. Or even an adventurer.
Maybe this country needed a monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“They were bleeding. They were broke. But they were not done.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves