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Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) QUOTES

Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1) QUOTES

1 " Not every flower belongs in every garden. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

2 " I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

3 " Bullshit. You were testing me.” “It’s my job to test you.” “I thought it was your job to teach me. That’s not the same thing. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

4 " Her gaze turned distant. 'Have you ever heard of the arsenic eaters?'
Alex blinked, confused. 'No?'
'They would ingest a little bit of arsenic every day. It made their skin clear and their eyes bright and they felt wonderful. And all the while they were just drinking poison.' When Mira turned her eyes back to Alex, they were sharper and steadier than Alex ever remembered them being, free of the usual determined cheer. 'That's what being with your father was like. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

5 " I let you die. To save myself, I let you die.
That is the danger in keeping company with survivors. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

6 " There were plenty of human monsters out there. Alex had met a few. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

7 " In the mirror, he saw himself, a knight with bowed head, offering his service, a sword in his hand, a sword in his back. He felt no pain, only the ache in his heart. Choose me. There were tears on his cheeks, even as he felt the shame of it. She was no one, a girl who had lucked into a gift, who had done nothing to earn it. She was his queen.
"Darlington," she said. But that was not his true name any more than Alex was hers.
If only she would choose him. If only she would let him...
She touched her fingers to his face, lifted his chin. Her lips brushed his ear. He didn't understand it. He only wanted her to do it again. Stars poured through him, a cold and billowing wave of night. He saw everything. He saw their bodies entwined. She was above him and beneath him all at once, her body splayed and white as a lotus flower. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

8 " Cautious was helpful; paranoid was just another word for distracted. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

9 " That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you'd been before life took away your belief in the possible. It gave back the world all lonely children longed for. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

10 " And maybe he wanted her to be the kind of girl who dressed as Queen Mab, who loved words and had stars in her blood. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

11 " Alex slept in Darlington's bed and dreamed that he was curled behind her on the narrow mattress.
He pulled her close, his fingers digging into her abdomen, and she could feel claws at their tips. He whispered in her ear, "I will serve you 'til the end of days."
"And love me," she said with a laugh, bold in the dream, unafraid.
But all he said was, "It is not the same. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

12 " This was the math she ran every night, every moment. How much time to try to get the work done? How much time to rest? She could never quite make the numbers work. She was always just scraping by, stretching the budget, always coming up a little short, and the panic clung to her, dogging her steps. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

13 " She remembered the jackals, spirit hounds, bound to serve the delegates of Lethe.
We are the shepherds.
Alex's hand lay against the floorboards. She could feel the cool, polished wood beneath her palm. Please, she begged the house silently. I am a daughter of Lethe, and the wolf is at the door. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

14 " She was no one, a girl who had lucked ito a gift, who had done nothing to earn it. she was his queen "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

15 " Didn’t someone say love is a shared delusion? "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

16 " Turner rested his gloved hands on the steering wheel. “I'm pretty sure when my mother was talking about the devil, she had you in mind.”
“I'm a delight. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

17 " Before you walked into a deal, you had to know if you would walk out. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

18 " She didn't know why. If you were going to hell together, murder seemed like a good place to start. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

19 " What did the dead have to fear? "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)

20 " That was what magic did. It revealed the heart of who you'd been before life took away your belief in the possible. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)