B. Six of Crows

Six of Crows

Highlights

cull — location: 369

A secret’s not like coin. It doesn’t keep its value in the spending. — location: 444

But when she wanted to, Inej had a way of making you feel her silence. — location: 604

“When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.” — location: 613

“You see, every man is a safe, a vault of secrets and longings. Now, there are those who take the brute’s way, but I prefer a gentler approach—the right pressure applied at the right moment, in the right place. It’s a delicate thing.” — location: 722

balk — location: 831

The house dripped mercher wealth—walls paneled in dark wood, floors tiled in clean black and white, all in good taste, all perfectly restrained and impeccably crafted. But it had the feel of a graveyard. The rooms were deserted, the curtains drawn, the furniture covered in white sheets so that each shadowy chamber they passed looked like some kind of forgotten seascape cluttered with icebergs. — location: 866

She felt slightly guilty for eavesdropping on Kaz, but he was the one who had turned her into a spy. You couldn’t train a falcon, then expect it not to hunt. — location: 1020

“But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot. You know what he is.” — location: 1447

concentric — location: 1908

Would she ever see her father again? Hear her mother singing, listen to her uncle’s silly stories? I’m not sure I have a heart to give anymore, Papa. — location: 2144

schooner — location: 2220

She would die here, in freedom, beneath the beginnings of dawn. — location: 2371

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.” — location: 2843

Nina’s voice really was terrible. But it helped to keep Inej on this boat, in this moment. She didn’t want to think about the last time she’d been at sea, but the memories were hard to fight. — location: 2927

flautist — location: 2972

“If you aren’t born with every advantage, you learn to take your chances.” — location: 2989

Their voices trailed off as they tromped ahead, and Matthias and the others followed after. But he noticed that each of them cast a final backward glance at the vanishing Ferolind. The schooner was a part of Kerch, a piece of home for them, and that last familiar thing was drifting farther away with every moment. — location: 3371

prudish?” — location: 3548

‘stalwart’ — location: 3900

Kaz felt ill. Though he’d trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with this shame. — location: 4317

“You okay?” Inej asked, and Kaz felt himself drawn toward her voice like water rolling downhill. — location: 4335

For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies. — location: 4786

The truth was she’d tried to sneak up on Kaz plenty of times since then. She’d never managed it. It was as if once Kaz had seen her, he’d understood how to keep seeing her. — location: 4790

She clung to the wall, but it was purpose she grasped at long last, and that carried her upward. — location: 4826

She was being vague, but she wasn’t yet ready to speak the dream that had ignited in her heart—a crew of her own, a ship under her command, a crusade. It felt like something that was meant to be kept secret, a new seed that might grow to something extraordinary if it wasn’t forced to bloom too soon. — location: 5149

stolid — location: 5240

“Some people see a magic trick and say, ‘Impossible!’ They clap their hands, turn over their money, and forget about it ten minutes later. Other people ask how it worked. They go home, get into bed, toss and turn, wondering how it was done. It takes them a good night’s sleep to forget all about it. And then there are the ones who stay awake, running through the trick again and again, looking for that skip in perception, the crack in the illusion that will explain how their eyes got duped; they’re the kind who won’t rest until they’ve mastered that little bit of mystery for themselves. I’m that kind.” — location: 5329

“The life you live, the hate you feel—it’s poison. I can drink it no longer.” Matthias locked the cell door and hurried down the passage toward Nina, toward something more. — location: 5917

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. — location: 6159

She’d laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him. — location: 6177

lodestone, — location: 6930

flue — location: 7087