“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“This action will have no echo.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“A lock is like a woman,” he’d said blearily. “You have to seduce it into giving up its secrets.”
Sure, a lock was like a woman. It was also like a man and anyone or anything else—if you wanted to understand it, you had to take it apart and see how it worked. If you wanted to master it, you had to learn it so well you could put it back together.”
― Crooked Kingdom
Sure, a lock was like a woman. It was also like a man and anyone or anything else—if you wanted to understand it, you had to take it apart and see how it worked. If you wanted to master it, you had to learn it so well you could put it back together.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“I would have 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.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
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