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“When one plan was blown, you made a new one. When they backed you in to a corner, you cut a hole in the roof.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“What is this?" she asked, her eyes scanning the page. "It's not..." She ran her fingertips over the words as if expecting them to vanish. "My contract." She whispered.
"I don't want you beholden to Per Haskell. Or me." Another half-truth. His mind had concocted a hundred schemes to bind her to him, to keep her in this city. But she'd spent enough of her life caged by debts and obligations, and it would be better for them both when she was gone.
"How?" she said. "The money-"
"It's done." He'd liquidated every asset he had, used the last of the savings he'd accrued, every ill-gotten cent.
She pressed the envelope to her chest, above her heart. "I have no words to thank you for this."
"Surely the Suli have a thousand words for such an occasion?"
"Words have not been invented for such an occasion."
"If I end up on the gallows, you can say something nice over the corpse," he said.”
― Crooked Kingdom
"I don't want you beholden to Per Haskell. Or me." Another half-truth. His mind had concocted a hundred schemes to bind her to him, to keep her in this city. But she'd spent enough of her life caged by debts and obligations, and it would be better for them both when she was gone.
"How?" she said. "The money-"
"It's done." He'd liquidated every asset he had, used the last of the savings he'd accrued, every ill-gotten cent.
She pressed the envelope to her chest, above her heart. "I have no words to thank you for this."
"Surely the Suli have a thousand words for such an occasion?"
"Words have not been invented for such an occasion."
"If I end up on the gallows, you can say something nice over the corpse," he said.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“Inej: *Walking onto an ice skating rink and spotting the skates* Oh... by the Saints.
Kaz: What?
Inej: *Getting excited* By the Saints. These are KNIFE SHOES!
Kaz: Y E S”
― Six of Crows
Kaz: What?
Inej: *Getting excited* By the Saints. These are KNIFE SHOES!
Kaz: Y E S”
― Six of Crows
“He felt a twinge in his chest, and with a disturbing jolt, he realised it was panic. She'd been the one to wake him from his stupor in the cart. Her voice had brought him back from the dark;it had been the tether he gripped and used to drag himself back to some semblance of sanity”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
“Sometimes the sky is grey
Sometimes the day’s grey too
But behind every grey sky
There’s always some blue”
― The Reading List
Sometimes the day’s grey too
But behind every grey sky
There’s always some blue”
― The Reading List
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