it gets dark when i say it does

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.

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.

what do you believe in? myself. and you

I have been fighting this war alone for so long.

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Ben Barnes as The Darkling in Shadow in Bone (2021-)

I may have considered throwing myself  down the stairs to get out of it once or twice. Wouldn’t work. I have Healers.

—CROOKED KINGDOM, LEIGH BARDUGO

⠀ ⠀❝ 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 : : ❞

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BEN BARNES as THE DARKLING in SHADOW AND BONE (2021- )