The Six of Crows Duology (The Six of Crows, #1-2)

by Leigh Bardugo

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”

Many boys will bring you flowers. But some day you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favourite flower, your favourite song, your favourite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.

slender, bone-handled blade she’d named for Sankta

Alina

“You know I can do it, Kaz, and you know I’m not going to refuse. So why ask?” Because I’ve been looking for an excuse to talk to you for two days.

He needed to know she believed in him.

“They fear you as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.”

“I will have you without armour, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”

“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.”