Morning Doodle: Now she looked nothing but annoyed. “Of course I do. Who else would I rather have my back in a fight?” (Leigh Bardugo’s Rule of Wolves CH 23, taken out of context)
Morning Doodle: “I am going to kill you.” “So long as you kiss me again before you do.” (Leigh Bardugo’s Rule of Wolves CH 46) *Quote taken out of context, but I think we all know they would say this on the regular
Morning Doodle: “Everything about this place set her teeth on edge. It felt as if something was watching her from the domes of the cathedral, from the shadows of the trees.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “Do you think Lizabeta was willing to be pulled apart? How about Demyan when he was stoned to death? Or Ilya, chained and thrown into a river to drown?”(Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “And this is the woman who is supposed to be answering the people’s prayers.” Zoya snapped a rose from its stem, ignoring the horrified gasp of the local priest. Its scent was cloying.“ (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “They had her drawn and quartered. It was said the roses turned red with her blood.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “The villagers to the north demanded Lizabeta repeat this miracle and save their town too” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “When they charged her, she fell to her knees in prayer, and it was the bees that answered, rising from the blossoms to attack the soldiers in a swarm.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “While the men of her town cowered, Lizabeta faced the soldiers in a field of white roses and begged them to show mercy.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: Super full work schedule this weekend! I’m gonna have to re-arrange my priorities a bit to fix my awful work/life balance and sleep schedule.
Morning Doodle: “She was only eighteen when raiders came to West Ravka’s shore, pillaging and burning every village they encountered.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodles: “What was Lizabeta’s story?” Nikolai asked. His voice was taut, but the others didn’t seem to notice. “It is both beautiful and tragic,” Yuri said enthusiastically. Zoya wanted to knock him into the roses.“Aren’t all martyrdoms built to look that way?”(KoS CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “The others’ eyes were locked on the statue, but before Nikolai could yank the cuff of his glove back into place, Zoya glimpsed the dark veining at his wrist pulse black“ (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “In the valley below, Zoya could just glimpse the sprawl of Kribirsk in the distance and the glimmer of the dead white sands that had once been the Shadow Fold beyond. They were close.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “Look,” said Tolya, and she heard new reverence in his voice. Black tears ran from Lizabeta’s eyes. They gleamed hard as obsidian, as if they’d frozen there or been cast in stone themselves. (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: Yuri’s face was ecstatic. “I wanted to believe. I did believe, but this…” Zoya realized he was weeping. “Be silent,” she bit out. “Or I’ll stuff you back into the coach myself.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “A statue of Sankta Lizabeta stood before the entrance. A riot of red roses had burst through the stone, cracking open her veiled skull. The flowers tumbled over the statue in wild profusion, surrounding its marble skirts in a wide circle like a pool of blood.” (KoS CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “They emerged at the top of a high, mounded hill next to a cathedral surrounded by scaffolding, its golden domes gleaming in the late-afternoon sun.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “That squash is as wide as I am tall,” Nikolai said beneath his breath as he smiled and waved. “And twice as handsome.” “Half as handsome,” he protested. “Ah,” said Zoya, “but the squash doesn’t talk.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
“The village was like all the others except for the pretty lake it overlooked. This time they’d been greeted by an off-key band and a parade of livestock and giant vegetables.” (Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “How can you be so sure?” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “Of course it has,” said Nikolai, “But such displays are beyond even the Apparat’s considerable reach. It pains my pride to say it, but there may be something at work here that’s bigger than both of us.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “Has it ever occured to you,” Zoya said, watching the skinny monk talk animatedly to a beleaguered-looking Tolya, “That this is all contrivance?” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
Morning Doodle: “They’d let Yuri emerge from the coach to stretch his legs and see the supposed miracle site, Tolya towering over him like one tree that had refused to fall.” (Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)
