Kookie

“What is she to you anyway?"

"Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“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, Six of Crows

“Un ami à moi laissait toujours son argent trainer n'importe où dans des enveloppes ou à même des tables et de tiroirs ouverts, jusqu'au jour où il a déménagé, et dans la nouvelle belle maison il y avait un coffre-fort emmuré dans la salle de bain, alors il y a rangé son argent, c'était normal. Seulement on le lui a volé le jour même... Au lieu de laisser trainer l'argent, il avait laissé trainer les clefs du coffre-fort, et des clefs, c'est encore plus irrésistible que l'argent...”
― Elsa Triolet, Le rossignol se tait à l'aube

“She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom