Crooked Kingdom: Book 2 (Six of Crows)

“You’d be surprised at what a man will do to avoid paying taxes.”

There’s no time to constantly be apologizing for existing. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.

She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.

“Death is a gift you haven’t yet earned.”

“You can only sharpen a blade so far,” Kaz said as he joined them at the front of the church. “In the end, it comes down to the quality of the metal.”

Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.”

And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.

“What do you think my forgiveness looks like, Jordie?”

“Who the hell is Jordie?”

They valued the things he could do instead of punishing him for the things he couldn’t.

“Zoya used to say that fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”