“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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that what I just said?”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Stay,” she panted. Tears leaked from her eyes. “Stay till the end.”
“And after,” he said. “And always.”
“I want to feel safe again. I want to go home to Ravka.”
“Then I’ll take you there. We’ll set fire to raisins or whatever you heathens do for fun.”
“Zealot,” she said weakly.
“Witch.”
“Barbarian.”
“Nina,” he whispered, “little red bird. Don’t go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you."
"You... you can?"
"It catches every time, like he's never seen you before.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Oh, I see. I'm the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!"
She poked him in the chest.
"Stop that."
"No. I'm beguiling you.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“What do you want then?"
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“You love trickery."
"I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Besides, she was the Wraith – the only law that applied to her was gravity, and some days she defied that, too.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch. You take his attention and direct it where you want it to go.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Scheming face,” Inej murmured.
Jesper nodded. “Definitely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Greed is your god, Kaz."
He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Inej had once offered to teach him how to fall. "The trick is not getting knocked down," he'd told her with a laugh. "No, Kaz," she'd said, "the trick is in getting back up.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“Saints, Kaz, you actually look happy."
"Don't be ridiculous," he snapped. But there was no mistaking it. Kaz Brekker was grinning like an idiot.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
“That anyone could father a child, but a real man chooses to be a dad.”
― J. Sterling, quote from The Perfect Game
“La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle.”
― Nikolai Gogol, quote from Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
“The fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own face in order to keep mine from getting bashed in”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Teen Idol
“But the past is long, and the future is short.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, quote from The Age of Miracles
“You’ve got all my firsts,” he said. “All the ones that matter.”
― Nicole Williams, quote from Crash
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