Six of Crows Quotes

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.

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.

I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.

She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.

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.

My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,.

When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.

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.

I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.

Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?.

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.

She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of.

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.

Greed is your god, Kaz." He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.

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.

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.

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.

A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.

I’m going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I’m going to get my girl.

You love trickery." "I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.

If the cripple is you, then any man with sense.

You'll get what's coming to you some day, Brekker." "I will," said Kaz, "if there's any justice in the world. And we all know how likely that is.

I will have you without armour, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.

It was because she was listening so closely that she knew the exact moment when Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, the bastard of the Barrel and deadliest boy in Ketterdam, fainted.

Always hit where the mark isn't looking" "Who's Mark?" asked Wylan.

There’s a difference between confidence and arrogance.

I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.

He'd broken his leg dropping down from the rooftop. The bone didn't set right, and he'd limped ever after. So he'd found himself a Fabrikator and had his cane made. It became a declaration. There was no part of him that was no broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.

I’m glad I’m bleeding all over your shirt.

Though he’d trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with his shame.

We'll be Kings and Queens, Inej. Kings and Queens.

Kaz, this whole 'shoot me' thing is starting to concern me.

My ghost won’t associate with your ghost.

Maybe your tutors didn’t cover this lesson, but you do not argue with a man covered in blood and a knife up his sleeve.

Facts are for the unimaginative.

How do you get your information, Mister Brekker?" "You might say I'm a lockpick." "You must be a very gifted one." "I am indeed." Kaz leaned back slightly. "You see, every man is a safe, a vault of secrets and longings. Now, there are those who take the brute's way, but I prefer a gentler approach - the right pressure applied at the right moment, in the right place. It's a delicate thing." "Do you always speak in metaphors, Mister Brekker?" Kaz smiled. "It's not a metaphor." He was out of his chair before his chains hit the ground.

Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a uniform to do it?.

A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him.

As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.

You still may die in the Dregs." Inej's dark eyes had glinted. "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand.

Nina just liked to flirt with everything. He’d once seen her make eyes at a pair of shoes she fancied in a shop window.

There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.

I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.

Everything.

You wouldn't know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth.

Why don't Fjerdans let girls fight?" "They don't want to fight." "How do you know? Have you ever asked one?" "Fjerdan women are to be venerated, protected." "That's probably a wise policy." "It is?" "Think how embarrassing it would be for you when you got trounced by a Fjerdan girl.

Shame holds more value than coin ever can.

She felt slightly guilty for eavesdropping on Kaz, but he was the one who had turned her into a spy. You couldn’t train a falcon, then expect it not to hunt.

You’re very welcome, gorgeous. See, Kaz? That’s how the civilised folk do.

I wouldn’t trust you to tie my shoes without stealing the laces, Kaz.

None of us move on without a backward look. We move on always carrying with us those we have lost.

I don't want your prayers, he said. 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.

She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above.

Why do you wear gloves, Mister Brekker?" Kaz raised a brow. "I'm sure you've heard the stories." "Each more grotesque than the last." Kaz had heard them, too. Brekker's hands were stained with blood. Brekker's hands were covered in scars. Brekker had claws and not fingers because he was part demon. Brekker's touch burned like brimstone - a single brush of his bare skin caused your flesh to wither and die. "Pick one," Kaz said as he vanished into the night, thoughts already turning to thirty million kruge and the crew he'd need to help him get it. "They're all true enough.

If we make it out of here alive, I’m going to kiss you unconscious.

But all he could think of was Inej. She had to live. She had to have made it out of the Ice Court. And if she hadn’t, then he had to live to rescue her.

He's horrible." "But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot.

There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken. No one knew who he was. No one knew where he came from. He'd become Kaz Brekker, cripple and confidence man, bastard of the Barrel. The gloves were his one concession to weakness. Since that night among the bodies and the swim from the Reaper's Barge, he had not been able to bear the feeling of skin against skin. It was excruciating to him, revolting. It was the only piece of his past that he could not forge into something dangerous.

Facts are for the unimaginative,.

She had her aim now, her heart had direction, and though it hurt to know the path led away from him, she could endure it.

It’s hard to keep track of all your wisdom.