#soc chapter 17

Six of Crows- Chapter 17 (Leigh Bardugo)

And this, dear children, is the reason people think Pekka Rollins a better person than Wylan's father. The amount of heartless assholery necessary to write such words to a person you know cannot read it. Sure, "back in the day", there likely wasn't a concept of disability like that- you can beat a lot into somehow "dumb" child-, but still.

Jan van Eck could switch parenting tips with Baghra.

Six of Crows- Chapter 17 (Leigh Bardugo)

They're scattered all over the book, so if I missed something from Six of Crows specifically, feel free to add more.

“Inej!” Jesper crowed. “You’re not dead!” She smiled faintly. “No more than anyone.” “If you’re spouting depressing Suli wisdom, then you must be feeling better.”

SoC Ch. 17

Suli were travelers. For them, “home” really just meant family.

SoC Ch. 21

... Inej had once offered to teach him how to fall. “The trick is not getting knocked down,” he’d told her with a laugh. “No, Kaz,” she’d said, “the trick is in getting back up.” More Suli platitudes ...

SoC Ch. 22

“Who chooses our paths?”

SoC Ch. 42

There was no wind, and the sea looked flat and glassy as a millpond. “A stubborn sky,” murmured Inej, squinting out toward Vellgeluk.

Six of Crows- Chapter 17 (Leigh Bardugo)

Wylan should've met David. Their brains are build to be curious, unlike ordinary people's.

Wylan shrugged. “Or what about the ice moat?” he said, tapping the plan of the Ice Court. Matthias had said the moat wasn’t solid, only a slick, wafer-thin layer of ice over frigid water, thoroughly exposed and impossible to cross. “What about it?” “Where does all the water come from? The Court is on a hill, so where’s the aquifer or aqueduct to bring the water up?” “Does it matter? There’s a bridge. We don’t need to cross the ice moat.” “But aren’t you curious?” “Saints, no. Get me a system for winning at Three Man Bramble or Makker’s Wheel. That I’m curious about.” Wylan had turned back to his work, his disappointment obvious.

He sees something he doesn't understand, and wants to change that. Anything unknown is a problem to be solved, whether he needs it for practical reasons or not. And he cannot grasp absence of such urges.