B. Crooked Kingdom

Crooked Kingdom

Highlights

depose — location: 98

filigree — location: 169

wended — location: 340

he says charity robs men of the chance at honest labor.” — location: 439

Matthias was not fooled. Kaz always spoke logic, but that didn’t mean he always told truth. — location: 634

Because it was not just the sense in the words she’d spoken that had stilled Van Eck’s hand but the truth he’d heard in her voice. He’ll never trade if you break me. She could not pretend those words had been conjured by strategy or even animal cunning. The magic they’d worked had been born of belief. An ugly enchantment. Tomorrow night I may — location: 1037

Jesper had never been a great reader. He loved stories, but he hated sitting still, and the books assigned to him for school seemed designed to make his mind wander. — location: 1125

effrontery — location: 1207

constabulary.” — location: 1362

Inej worried her lower lip. — location: 1545

lackluster — location: 1729

bespectacled — location: 1868

brooked — location: 1971

addled — location: 2181

sluiced — location: 2266

cowed — location: 2416

olfactory — location: 2422

“You don’t win by running one game,” said Kaz. — location: 2514

quatrefoil — location: 2537

Inej remembered the way the sun had caught the brown in his eyes only hours before. Now they were the color of coffee gone bitter in the brewing. — location: 2579

“Why do gods always like to be worshipped in high places?” Kaz muttered. “It’s men who seek grandeur,” Inej said, springing nimbly along as if her feet knew some secret topography. “The Saints hear prayers wherever they’re spoken.” — location: 2809

Waiting was the part of the criminal life so many people got wrong. They wanted to act instead of hold fast and gather information. They wanted to know instantly without having to learn. Sometimes the trick to getting the best of a situation was just to wait. — location: 2842

“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.” — location: 2890

fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.” — location: 2926

expatriates — location: 2965

His father’s ire had been unpleasant, but it was his logic that haunted Wylan—that practical, irrefutable voice that spoke in Wylan’s head whenever he thought about attempting something new, or trying to learn to read again. — location: 3209

docile — location: 3399

comeuppance.” — location: 3510

temerity — location: 3723

“Why pay for something I can make better myself?” — location: 4063

When fear arrives, something is about to happen. — location: 4246

“How do you walk so fearlessly?” she’d simply shrugged and said, “It’s just walking.” — location: 4255

she had become better at numbing herself, vanishing so completely that she almost didn’t care what was done to the body she left behind. — location: 4286

commiserating — location: 4349

“You’re not weak because you can’t read. You’re weak because you’re afraid of people seeing your weakness. You’re letting shame decide who you are. — location: 4418

We can endure all kinds of pain. It’s shame that eats men whole.” — location: 4422

cosseting. — location: 4518

If they could be made to see miracles where once they’d seen abomination, what else might change? — location: 4554

Kaz and the others teased him, but they’d given him a chance to prove himself. They valued the things he could do instead of punishing him for the things he couldn’t. — location: 5008

There’s no time to constantly be apologizing for existing. But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.” — location: 5232

“There’s a wound in you, and the tables, the dice, the cards—they feel like medicine. They soothe you, put you right for a time. But they’re poison, Jesper. Every time you play, you take another sip. You have to find some other way to heal that part of yourself.” She laid her hand on his chest. “Stop treating your pain like it’s something you imagined. If you see the wound is real, then you can heal it.” — location: 5240

What if all that power inside him just liked to bounce around looking for someplace to go? — location: 5311

the meeting finally broke apart, the coffee — location: 5524

“Rich men want to believe they deserve every penny they’ve got, so they forget what they owe to chance. Smart men are always looking for loopholes. They want an opportunity to game the system.” — location: 6188

flummoxed — location: 6340

mien — location: 6398

You couldn’t make a life on the streets of the Barrel or as a soldier in the Second Army without encountering death. But this was different. This was decay. — location: 6508

And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have. — location: 6537

cloistered — location: 6706

dais — location: 6757

finial — location: 7044

We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren’t chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway. — location: 7086

curio — location: 7140

That dark door opened wider. Kaz wanted to walk through it. He would never be whole. — location: 7318

Kaz met Pekka’s gaze. “Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste.” — location: 7364

querulous — location: 7474

“He doesn’t say goodbye,” Inej said. She kept her eyes on the lights of the canal. Somewhere in the garden, a night bird began to sing. “He just lets go.” — location: 7914

The one problem with being on the ground floor was that people were a lot more likely to bother you. — location: 7951

Inej had seen the scant glimmer of what he might become if he let himself. — location: 8024

She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying. — location: 8092

Now all he wanted to do was sit inside, drink his whiskey, watch the shadows move across the ceiling. Anything else filled him with a terrible fatigue. — location: 8152