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“PLEASE REFRAIN FROM ASSASSINATING MAYORAL CANDIDATES IN THE VENUE,USE THE WASHROOM AS THEY ARE EASIER TO CLEAN.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Cage of Dreams

“Ma'am," I tell her. "Your husband was trying to eat you."
"A misundertanding !" she insists, still waving the only arm she has left.
I press my fingers to the bridge of my nose. "He ripped off your arm."
"An accident."
"He ate it."
"He was hungry. It's a shame to let these things go to waste.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, City of Nightmares

“Had little baby Kovit toddled around stabbing his father in the shins and ripping his sister’s hair out? Actually, that probably wasn’t too different from other children.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“We’re prisoners.” Well, duh. Nita resisted the urge to roll her eyes. This was why she hated people.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“Damn it, Nita. If you fuck this up because of such a stupid mistake, you'll never live it down. No shit, because I'll never live.”
•pg.230 - Nita's inner monologue”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Not Even Bones

“MAYOR SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN PRISON ON CORRUPTION CHARGES, SAYS IT WILL BE “GOOD NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, City of Nightmares

“I can't resist. Every time they come in, they always think the same damn thing. Kelpie, water, basement murder chamber." The kelpie grinned at her, eyes dancing with mischief. "Really, if they'd stop stereotyping, then the pranks wouldn't work.”
― Rebecca Schaeffer, Only Ashes Remain

“Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite 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.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“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

“No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Jesper knocked his head against the hull and cast his eyes heavenward. “Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.”
Brekker’s lips quirked. “I’ll just hire Matthias’ ghost to kick your ghost’s ass.”
“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“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

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“We are all someone's monster.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“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

“The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your villain.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I'd catch myself just walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I'd seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I'd realize that you weren't there anymore, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me why we don't belong together," he said fiercely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you."
"You... you can?"
"It catches every time, like he's never seen you before.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“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

“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm

“What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm