The Black Hawk Quotes

“I like the woman you became better than the girl you were. I like the story you’ve written on your face”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk

“You know every alley in my mind, every broken bottle and rat scuttling in there.”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk

“The good news was, she probably hadn't brought him here to gut him. If she wanted him dead, she'd be sensible about it and stab him in the street. She was complex, not perverse.”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk

“It was an ancient policy with her to be on good terms with anything that outweighed her and had so many teeth, so she broke the bacon in two and gave him the smaller piece. He was a dog. He would not realize he had been slighted.”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk

“Carrying lockpicks was one bad sign. On the other hand, Owl was taking long enough getting the lock open she almost counted as honest.

"I'm not going to offer to do that," he said. "It'd just annoy you."

"If you do not wish to annoy me, be silent. I'm trying to be quiet about this.”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk

“she wakes up all at once, all over, smooth as a cat. Probably there’s cat in her ancestry someplace. Those old noble French families . . .” “No telling, with the French. Inventive people.”
― Joanna Bourne, The Black Hawk