Leigh Bardugo is an inspiring Novelist who entered the world on April 06, 1975. She takes the Nationality of Israeli-American. She is known for her Fiction and Fantasy genres. She became number one author for best-selling books of Ninth House in New York Times and the Grishaverse creator (a series from Netflix original) that reflects the story of her books with a duology ‘The Six of Crows, ‘The Shadow and Bone, ‘The King of Scars.’
Leigh Bardugo has won ‘The Best Fantasy of 2019’ by Goodreads, and Amazon studios are developing a web series based on her works that carries ‘Ninth House and Wonder woman.’ She is currently located in Los Angeles and is a Fellow Associate at Yale University of Pauli Murray College.
Bardugo has highlighted many quotes in her ‘Crooked Kingdom’ throughout the story to keep the readers entertained and thoughtful. Here we discuss the quotes that would be helpful for life and success.
1. “Nothing like being shot at a few times to make you a fast learner.”- Leigh Bardugo
Aspirants do practice all day. But when they get tired, they get slow, which affects the training. But what if the terrorists point the gun toward us and ask us to run forwards, we will run faster and faster, and our mind forgets that we are tired enough to stop. So when it comes to life, we always do better than we can. When life throws us into hell, we strive our best to achieve the outcome it. When life gives us comfort, we do it effortlessly.
Likewise, sometimes if we want to succeed, we require some failures. Because failures and insults make you stronger and clearer. If you are a real aspirant, you keep all the odds aside and run through the obstacles. You take all our stones, construct the bridge and cross the river. It gives clarity to a person with a clear road map to success. Here, Leigh Badugo conveys this message with a near metaphor.
2. “Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait.” – Leigh Bardugo
People have a very bad habit, and that is curiosity. We are all always curious about others’ lives or upcoming incidents and their results. These kinds of attitudes have got many solutions to the mysteries of the world, and sometimes it also becomes worse. Hence, Leigh Bardugo suggests we wait and watch the situation at the worst times and keep an eye on details, analyze and act. He also says that waiting is one the best tricks to get the situation at hand.
3. “People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It’s a handshake.” – Leigh Bardugo
Ketterdam is an international trading operating center for criminal groups in the book ‘Grishaverse’ written by the author. Here she tries to say that people are diversified and so are their traditions and habits. Their looks, attitude, language, and culture differ from ours, but that does not mean they are not humans and they are not lovable. Every living being communicates in their way, which depends on the grown-up culture. Likewise, here in Ketterdam, when people use their guns and point at others, it means a handshake and that not to be panicked.
4. “And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.” – Leigh Bardugo
When depression affects you more, it means you have attracted that depression. Some people try stuff that is not theirs. When it does not belong to you, even after many efforts, it can never be yours because it is not for you. You are expecting something to happen for you which is not created for you and when the universe does not cooperate and there where you destroy yourself. Never involve yourself in something when you analyze and find out which will not suit you. Destiny decides everything.
5. “Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” – Leigh Bardugo
This quote has a lot of in-depth meaning. When we grow up from childhood, we are prepared to mask ourselves with confidence to survive this world. We fear for things until we die, and this secret is known only to you. We fear failures. And we fear winning, we fear for family, we fear for statements and everything. We Fear Nothing’ can motivate you, but ‘We Fear everything’ is the real truth.
It is a living being emotion that need not be shamed. Inside Fear with a confident outlook always gives better results. But we can mask our confidence over the Fear of cheating ourselves and cheating others. Here, cheating becomes a good deed. Leigh Bardugo conveys it very smoothly through her lines with such a massive example.
6. “You could love something and still see its flaws.” – Leigh Bardugo
When we love a person, our eyes will look into good deeds only during the initial stages. But when time flies, we start noticing their flaws, and that is where the problem starts. We have nearly 8 Billion people in the world, and none of us are the same. No human can be similar to any one person in this world. So it is hard to find a 100% perfect partner who matches everything about you.
So, if we notice the flaws of our person, we should not consider it a crime. Of course, when we are really into a person, love overtakes flaws. We may hurt, we may fight, but we can never give up on each other, and that is love, Leigh Bardugo says.
7. “Meeting you was a disaster. But I am grateful every day for that disaster.” – Leigh Bardugo
Not everyone can explain the meaning of love in the way Leigh did. What if you are traveling in a landscape and all of a sudden your truck hits an accident, and finally when you open your eyes and your hand is full of diamonds? Your body feels painful, but your mind is filled with happiness. Similarly, meeting a new person, falling in love, and being together may bring many changes to life, and it may be a mixture of salt and sugar.
To enjoy the end part of the ice cream cone, we have to eat the full ice cream patiently. So, though life has ups and downs, having a partner with you is complete moral support, and we should be grateful for them. Likewise, Bardugo feels for her husband and states this quote.
8. “Stop treating your wound like it’s something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, then you can heal it.” – Leigh Bardugo
If any disappointment hits us, we sit in the corner of the room, think about the same for a long time, make ourselves uncomfortable, create our sympathy, enter into the dark world, be negative, and forget the real world, which was previously super cool and exciting. We will start living with the wound and make it to the extent of hating ourselves. Like we think to ourselves that the wound in the heart will not affect us in a way that is deeply contrary to reality.
Study shows that humans think over nearly 6000 thoughts a day, and everything does not affect us. We imagine much, and we don’t work on our imaginations since we know the reality. Likewise, when we get wounded, we carry our wounds along with us instead of healing them. If you get a wound, either physically or mentally, analyze the reasons for the wound, try to bring up the solutions to heal your wound, clear it and move on. Never make a wound stay with you and make it cancerous to the body and mind.
9. “Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.” – Leigh Bardugo
People shut down when they suffer. Suffer is nothing but a part of life. Happiness, sadness, joy, and Suffering is the stage that every human should come across. Everyone encounters suffering here and there. When we practice tackling it, we become smart. Everything happens for a reason, and so Suffering is.
Sometimes it gives you the strength to overcome those obstacles and make you win. If we get along with it, we will accept it, adopt it and survive it. Comforting makes you blissful, but Suffering makes you powerful.
10. “Better terrible truths than kind lies.” – Leigh Bardugo
When we lie to a person we love, they can smoothly extract the truth through our eyes. It hits them hard. We may escape for a time, but the blade in the pocket keeps you itching. It is hard to travel with a heavy weight all along the way. When we cannot be true to ourselves, our conscience hits us hard, and we can never be true to anyone. Once a liar, always a life. One becomes thousands, and life will be full of lies.
It is always better to convey the truth, seek mercy, get punished, and move to a new chapter. Lies can never help you in the end.
11. “The really bad monsters never look like monsters.” – Leigh Bardugo
We all have three faces. One for ourselves, one for family, and one for society. We keep changing our cloak depending on the situation. As like movie shows, monsters are the ones who have big eyes, stinky noses, and ugly toes with a roaring sound. Every one of us has our monsters inside. In the outer world, most of us look handsome and beautiful. But for someone, we are still a monster.
But there are very bad monsters who do all the worst actions against the person or the community and still act nice in front of other people. Looks never make us beautiful. Character does. Words never make us human. Action does.
12. “You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are.” – Leigh Bardugo
We fear not about capabilities. We fear for the people who judge us. We always strive to achieve something, whether we are good or bad at it. Our weakness is not about capability, and our weakness rises when we fear judging people. Our weakness lies in the judgment of others. We let the shame decide the real us. We start thinking about the outcomes. But the real you lies within you. Forget about the results, forget about judging people, and just focus on your strength and act. Success will fall for you.
13. “Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.- Leigh Bardugo
Crows will also alert their friends if they recognize a human face connected with a stressful scenario for up to five years. Crows are renowned for their exceptional intelligence and have even been seen creating gadgets to pry food out of awkward places. They can create tools like hooks and spikes to collect food or use for digging. They hide food and later find it. They are quite flexible.
14. “I don’t hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins.”-Leigh Bardugo
When you continue to maintain bitterness, resentment, wrath, or other bad emotions after someone has injured you, you are said to be holding a grudge. The majority of the time, it’s in retaliation for something that has already happened, but there are other situations when a grudge may grow from just believing that someone is against you or intends to do you harm, whether or not they really do. Rumination on the person or event that is the source of your animosity is another common trait of grudges.
15. “This action will have no echo.”-Leigh Bardugo
The echo of life. What you send out, returns to you. You reap what you sow. You receive what you give. You are what you see to be in others. Keep in mind that life is an echo. You always receive a response. Give excellent, then.
16. “Knowledge isn’t a sign of divine favor. Prosperity is.”- Leigh Bardugo
Understanding something requires having knowledge of its facts, information, description, and abilities. Man is unique from other species in the cosmos since it is the source of his power. Knowledge isn’t everything what matter is the prosperity in life.
17. “We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.”- Leigh Bardugo
Everywhere, every day, human misery manifests itself in a variety of forms. Although we don’t always see it, it doesn’t imply it isn’t there. When we do witness it, we frequently question, “Does human suffering have purpose?” I have no trouble answering this query. It does indeed have meaning,