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  • #1
    Frank Zappa
    “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa
    tags: books, humor
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  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
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  • #4
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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  • #5
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #6
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #7
    Jo Nesbø
    “What is it that makes us realise we’re going to die? What is it that happens on the day when we acknowledge it isn’t just a possibility, but an unavoidable fucking fact that our life will come to an end?”
    ― Jo Nesbø, Blood on Snow
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  • #8
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
    "You're a thief, Kaz."
    "Isn't that what I just said?”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #9
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: genya
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  • #10
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I'm the Sun Summoner. It gets dark when I say it does.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
    tags: alina-starkov, leigh-bardugo, ruin-and-rising
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  • #11
    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.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows
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  • #12
    Leigh Bardugo
    “I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: six-of-crows
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  • #13
    Leigh Bardugo
    “She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: brekker, crooked-kingdom, ghafa, inej, inej-ghafa, kaz, kaz-brekker, leigh-bardugo, six-of-crows
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  • #14
    Leigh Bardugo
    “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.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, kaz-brekker, leigh-bardugo
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  • #15
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Has anyone noticed this whole city is looking for us, mad at us, or wants to kill us?"
    "So?" said Kaz.
    "Well, usually it's just half the city.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, jesper-fahey, kaz-brekker
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  • #16
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Greed is your god, Kaz."
    He almost laughed at that. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: god, greed, kaz-brekker
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  • #17
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Saints, Kaz, you actually look happy."
    "Don't be ridiculous," he snapped. But there was no mistaking it. Kaz Brekker was grinning like an idiot.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
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  • #18
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Where do you think the money went?” he repeated.
    “Guns?” asked Jesper.
    “Ships?” queried Inej.
    “Bombs?” suggested Wylan.
    “Political bribes?” offered Nina. They all looked at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are,” she whispered.
    He shrugged. “They all seem like practical choices.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: inej-ghafa, jesper-fahey, kaz-brekker, matthias-helvar, nina-zenik, practical, wylan-van-eck
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  • #19
    Leigh Bardugo
    “It was because she was listening so closely that she knew the exact moment when Kaz Brekker, Dirtyhands, the bastard of the Barrel and deadliest boy in Ketterdam, fainted.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker
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  • #20
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Why do you guys say that, anyway? No mourners, no funerals? Why not just say good luck or be safe?”
    “We like to keep our expectations low.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: honesty, kaz-brekker, low-expectations, no-mourners-no-funerals, wylan-van-eck
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  • #21
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Everything is a negotiation with you, Brekker. You probably bartered your way out of the womb.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, kaz-brekker, negotiation
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  • #22
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Our hopes rest with you, Mister Brekker. If you fail, all the world will suffer for it."
    "Oh, it's worse than that, Van Eck. If I fail, I don't get paid.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: kaz-brekker, six-of-crows
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  • #23
    Leigh Bardugo
    “You can’t spend his money if you’re dead.”
    “I’ll acquire expensive habits in the afterlife.”
    “There’s a difference between confidence and arrogance.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: arrogance, confidence, inej-ghafa, kaz-brekker, priorities
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  • #24
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Two of the deadliest people the Barrel had to offer and they could barely touch each other without both of them keeling over. But they tried. He tried. Maybe they could try again.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: crooked-kingdom, grishaverse, inej-ghafa, kanej, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows
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  • #25
    Leigh Bardugo
    “There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: kaz-brekker
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  • #26
    Leigh Bardugo
    “Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
    tags: justice, kaz-brekker
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  • #27
    Leigh Bardugo
    “A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him.”
    ― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
    tags: inej, kaz, kaz-brekker, six-of-crows
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  • #28
    Suzanne Collins
    “What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?”
    ― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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  • #29
    Sebastian Fitzek
    “Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside. It also feeds on human time”
    ― Sebastian Fitzek, Das Paket
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