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Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2) QUOTES

Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2) QUOTES

1 " Waiting was the part of the criminal life so many people got wrong. They wanted to act instead of hold fast and gather information. They wanted to know instantly without having to learn. Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. If you didn't like the weather, you didn't rush into the storm - you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

2 " Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that […]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan) "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

3 " Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

4 " Nina would never let Kaz abandon her. She'd fight with everything she had to free Inej even if she was still in the grips of Parem. Matthias would stand by her with that great heart full of honor. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

5 " Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

6 " Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

7 " But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.”
“I will.”
“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

8 " You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

9 " Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

10 " i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

11 " Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

12 " 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. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

13 " She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

14 " It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”
“You only say that because you have no shame. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

15 " He was going to break my legs,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “Would you have come for me then, Kaz? When I couldn’t scale a wall or walk a tightrope? When I wasn’t the Wraith anymore?”

Dirtyhands would not. The boy who could get them through this, get their money, keep them alive, would do her the courtesy of putting her out of her misery, then cut his losses and move on.

“I would come for you,” he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. “I would 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. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

16 " I don't remember saying you could give away my biscuits. "
"It's for a good cause, besides you've barely touched them. "
"I'm saving them for later, and you should not cross me when it's comes to sweets. "
Jasper nodded. "She's like a dessert-hoarding dragon. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

17 " Tell me about Dunyasha,” he said.

“She was carrying quality blades.” Inej took the shears from the table of the vanity and began cutting fresh strips of cloth from one of the towels. “I think she may be my shadow.”

“Pretty solid shadow if she can throw knives.”

“The Suli believe that when we do wrong, we give life to our shadows. Every sin makes the shadow stronger, until eventually the shadow is stronger than you.”

“If that were true, my shadow would have put Ketterdam in permanent night.”

“Maybe,” Inej said, turning her dark gaze to his. “Or maybe you’re someone else’s shadow. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

18 " When this is all over, when Van Eck has been put in his place, when Rollins goes running, and the money is paid, these will still be my streets. I can’t live in a city where I can’t hold up my head.”

“If you have a head to hold up,” said Jesper.

“I’ve taken knives, bullets, and too many punches to count, all for a little piece of this town,” said Kaz. “This is the city I bled for. And if Ketterdam has taught me anything, it’s that you can always bleed a little more. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

19 " You take things too personally, Brekker. You should be focused on the job, but you’re too busy holding a grudge.”

“That’s where you’re wrong,” said Kaz. “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 , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

20 " Anything else?” asked Matthias.
“I like singing,” said Alys.
Wylan shook his head frantically, mouthing, No, no, no.
“Shall I sing?” Alys asked hopefully. “Bajan says that I’m good enough to be on the stage.”
“Maybe we save that for later—” suggested Jesper.
Alys’ lower lip began to wobble like a plate about to break.
“Sing,” Matthias blurted, “by all means, sing.”
And then the real nightmare began.
It wasn’t that Alys was so bad, she just never stopped. She sang between bites of food. She sang while she was walking through the graves. She sang from behind a bush when she needed to relieve herself. When she finally dozed off, she hummed in her sleep.
“Maybe this was Van Eck’s plan all along,” Kaz said glumly when they’d assembled outside the tomb again.
“To drive us mad?” said Nina. “It’s working.”
Jesper shut his eyes and groaned. “Diabolical. "

― Leigh Bardugo , Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)