six of crows quotes

Inej could never be sure which stories about Kaz were true ad which were rumors he'd planted to serve his own ends.

You couldn't train a falcon, then expect it not to hunt.

'Really, Jesper?' she'd said, pulling up her hood. 'If I want to watch men dig holes to fall into, I'll find myself a cemetary.'

It was fatiguing, but nothing was sacred to the Kerch accept trade, so she'd gone out of her way to make the risk much higher than the reward when it came to disrespecting her.

Inej saw Jesper rise from his seat, but she waved him off and slipped her fingers into the brass knuckles she kept in her right hip pocket. She gave Rojakke a swift crack across the left cheek.

'You're a blackmailer-' 'I broker information.' 'A con artist-' 'I create opportunity.' A bawd and a murderer-' 'I don't run whores, and I kill for a cause.' 'And what cause is that?' 'Same as yours, merch. Profit.'

'Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.'

'Greed is your god, Kaz'

When everyone knows you're a monster, you needn't waste time doing every monsterous thing.

'There's something wrong with you, Brekker. I don't know what you are, but you're not made right.'

Now the monster was here, dead-eyed and unafraid. Kaz Brekker was gone, and Dirtyhands had come to see the rough work done.

Neutral territory had been violated. The sharp tang of gunpowder already hung in the air–and along with it a question, unspoken in the quiet, as if the Reaper himself awaited the answer: How much blood will be shed tonight?

Shame holds more value than coin ever can.

A secret's not like coin. It doesn't keep it's value in the spending.

'I am a businessman,' he'd told her. 'No more, no less.' 'You're a thief, Kaz.' 'Isn't that what I just said?'

At first, she'd thought it was a matter of taste, but she'd come to understand that it was a joke he played on the upstanding merchers. He enjoyed looking like one of them.

Kas was the exception–the picture of restraint, his dark vests and trousers simply cut and tailored along severe lines.