Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

by Leigh Bardugo

“I would come for you,” he said, and when he saw the wary look she shot him, he said it again. “I would 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.”

fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”

To hell with revenge, to hell with his schemes. If Rollins had done something to Inej, Kaz would paint East Stave with his entrails.

Nina glanced from Inej to Kaz and saw they both wore the same expression. Nina knew that look. It came after the shipwreck, when the tide moved against you and the sky had gone dark. It was the first sight of land, the hope of shelter and even salvation that might await you on a distant shore.

Two of the deadliest people the Barrel had to offer and they could barely touch each other without both of them keeling over.

And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.

“I’m not ready to give up on this city, Kaz. I think it’s worth saving.” I think you’re worth saving.

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too.”

“They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for. Inej,”

Had she really thought the world didn’t change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles, unexpected earthquakes, storms that came from nowhere and might reshape a continent. The boy beside her. The future before her. Anything was possible.