Darklina Quotes & Sayings

You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing — Leigh Bardugo

I will stip away all that you know, all that you love....
Until you have no shelter byt me — Leigh Bardugo

You were meant to be my balance Aline.
You are the only person in the world who might rule with me, who might keep my powers in check — Leigh Bardugo

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. — Virginia Woolf

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch. — DMX

The Darkling smiled, but this time the turn of his lips was cold. He shoved off the table and stalked toward me.

"I will enter the Fold, Alina, and I will show West Ravka what I can do, even without the Sun Summoner. And when I have crushed Lantsov's only ally, I will hunt you like an animal. You will find no sanctuary. You will have no peace." He loomed over me, his gray eyes glinting. "Fly back home to your otkazat'sya," he snarled. "Hold him tight. The rules of this game are about to change. — Leigh Bardugo

God is a champion on the battlefield;
whenever Goliath intimidates you,
call on His name. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Every top player has his own style, just as every painter has his own personal signature. — Vladimir Kramnik

I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy ... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

I know what you thought, what you always thought of me.
It's so much easier that way, isn't it? — Leigh Bardugo

I want you to know my name.
The name I was given, not the title I took for myself.
Will you have it?

"Yes"

"Aleksander — Leigh Bardugo

There are rumors that your Lantsov prince has been sighted."

I drifted nearer, trying to keep my voice casual. "Where?"

He glanced up, his lips curling in a slight smile. "Do you like him?"

"Does it matter?"

"It's harder when you like them. You mourn them more."

"Tell me, Alina," said the Darkling. "Has he claimed you yet?"

"Claimed me? Like a peninsula?"

"No blushes. No averted eyes. How you've changed. What about your faithful tracker? Will he sleep curled at the foot of your throne? — Leigh Bardugo

I didn't have to stand here in the darkling arms. I could vanish from his grip, slide back into consciousness and the safety of a stone room hidden in the mountaintop. But I didn't want to go. Despite, everything, I wanted this whispered confidence .
"Yes." I breathed. — Leigh Bardugo

I sought Morozova amplifiers for you Alina, so that we can rule as equals — Leigh Bardugo

Will you say it?

"Aleksander"

His grin faded and his grey eyes seemed to flicker.

"Again."

"Aleksander — Leigh Bardugo