Leigh Bardugo Bio, Age, Net Worth, Books and Quotes

Leigh Bardugo Bio

Leigh Bardugo is an American young adult and fantasy author. She is best known for the Six of Crows duology and the Shadow and Bone trilogy. The publications have sold over two million copies.

Leigh Bardugo Age

Leigh Bardugo Early Life

Bardugo was born in Jerusalem, Israel, but grew up in Los Angeles being raised by her grandparents. She studied at Yale University, where she graduated with a degree in English in Spring 1997. Formerly before publishing her first novel, Leigh worked in copywriting, journalism, including makeup and special effects.

Leigh Bardugo Books

Grisha trilogy

• Shadow and Bone (2012)
• Siege and Storm (2013)
• Ruin and Rising (2014)

Short stories set in the world of the Grisha trilogy

• The Witch of Duva (2012)
• The Too-Clever Fox (2013)
• Little Knife (2014)
• The Demon in the Wood: A Darkling Prequel Story (2015)
• Ayama and the Thorn Wood (2017)
• The Soldier Prince (2017)
• When Water Sang Fire (2017)

The first three stories were later released as a set called Folktales from Ravka in 2015. 2017’s The Language of Thorns collected all of the short stories except The Demon in the Wood.

Six of Crows duology

• Six of Crows (2015)
• Crooked Kingdom (2016)

King of Scars duology

• King of Scars (2019)

Standalone works

• Wonder Woman: Warbringer (2017)

Adult novels

• Ninth House (planned June 2019)

Essays

• “We Are Not Amazons” from Last Night a Superhero Saved My Life anthology (2016)

Short stories

• “Verse Chorus Verse” in Slasher Girls & Monster Boys, edited by April Genevieve Tucholke (2015)
• “Head, Scales, Tongue, and Tail” in Summer Days and Summer Nights, edited by Stephanie Perkins (2016)

Leigh Bardugo Quotes

• “Kaz leaned back. “What’s the easiest way to steal a man’s wallet?”
  “Knife to the throat?” asked Inej.
  “Gun to the back?” said Jesper.
  “Poison in his cup?” suggested Nina.
  “You’re all horrible,” said Matthias.”
• “Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
• “I would have come for you. And if I couldn’t walk, I’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that’s what we do. We never stop fighting.”
• “No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for ‘good luck.”
• “The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
• “It’s not natural for women to fight.”
  “It’s not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
• “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
• “When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
• “Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
  Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
  “My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
• “She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
• “I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I’d catch myself just walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I’d seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I’d realize that you weren’t there anymore, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I’ve risked my life for you. I’ve walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I’d do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don’t tell me why we don’t belong together,” he said fiercely.”
• “I’m a businessman,” he’d told her. “No more, no less.”
  “You’re a thief, Kaz.”
  “Isn’t that what I just said?”
• “The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
• “Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.”
• “The problem with wanting,” he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my lips, “is that it makes us weak.”
• “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”