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He'd known even then, though: He'd start as a grunt, but the Dregs would become his army.

I have loved you all my life, Mal. There is no end to our story.

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.

Nina, little red bird. Don't go.

Back at the treasury Matthias had said, He's one of us. She liked that word. Us. A word without division or borders. It seemed full of hope.

If I want to watch men dig holes to fall into, I'll find myself a cemetery.

You don't want to be doing this.
This is the only thing I want to be doing

I may not have been completely honest about that."
"You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.

Everyone okay?" Mal asked.
"Never better," said Genya shakily.
David raised his hand. "I've been better.

Kaz narrowed his eyes. I'm not some character out of a children's story who plays harmless pranks and steals from the rich to give to the poor.

Understatement is overrated

We are not witches. We are practitioners of the Small Science. We keep this country and this kingdom safe.

Scars made good reminders.

A good magician wasn't much different from a proper thief.

In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

What if I'm no better than you? What if instead of stopping you, I'm just another avalanche?

Shame holds more value than coin ever can." He

I already unleashed Baghra on Nikolai. He's going to think I stockpile vicious old women.

He'd wanted me to believe in his ruthlessness.
Then I remembered his words from so long ago: Make me your villain.

I will have you without armor or I will not have you at all.

Are we philosophizing?" asked Harshaw. "Or were those song lyrics?

What are you two doing barefoot and half naked in the mud?" asked a familiar voice. "Looking for truffles, I hope?

Barrel boys don't have parents. We're born in the harbour and crawl out of the canals.

Don't feel too bad, tracker," said the Darkling. "All men can be made fools.

I am become a blade.

He'd heard there were sharks in these waters, but he knew they wouldn't touch him. He was a monster now, too.

i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket.

Aleksander."
His eyes fluttered shut. "Don't let me be alone," he murmured. And then he was gone.

You aren't a murderer, Alina."

"I think the Ravkans I just helped you slaughter would disagree.

This isn't hope, I thought. It's madness. It's hunger, need, desperation.

You know the problem with heroes and saints, Nikolai?" I asked as I closed the book's cover and headed for the door. "They always end up dead.

The deal was only for kicking. It did not prohibit slapping, punching, biting or cutting you in half.

(...) remember that to use a thing is not to own it.

Matthias and Wylan seized the rope to pull him up. Jesper wasn't sure how much Wylan was actually helping, but he was certainly working hard.

Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

Dirtyhands had come to see the rough work done.

I seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned.

This was what Ravka did. It made orphans. It made misery. No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun.

And the look they exchanged could have melted miles of northern ice.

Morozova's stag. Rusalye. The firebird. Legends come to life before my eyes, just to die in front of me.

Have you even held a command? Nikolai asked. I'd once led a seminar of junior mapmakers, but I didn't think that was what he meant.

You're shaking."
"I'm not used to people trying to kill me."
"Really? I hardly notice anymore.

I didn't belong in this beautiful world, and if I didn't find a away to use my power, I never would.

My Wraith would counsel mercy. But thanks to you, she's not here to plead your case.

If you write, you're a writer.

So I'm the Darkling's prisoner?"
"You're under his protection."
"What's the difference?"
"Pray you never find out.

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.

Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job.

I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.

There is no safe place. There is no haven. Not for us.

I want you to know my name.
The name I was given, not the title I took for myself.
Will you have it?

"Yes"

"Aleksander

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

You'll still make a great king."
"Of course I will," he scoffed. "I'm melancholy, not daft.

I don't reserve my friendship for perfect people.

Ivan gabbled something in Shu that I didn't understand. The giant just laughed.
"You speak Shu like a tourist," he said.

I was just a girl again, but this girl didn't owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. I'd been born with my power; the rest I'd earned.

I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.
I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream.

It really does look like the rings of a tree," she said. "No," said Kaz. "It looks like a target.

Alone in the gloom, surrounded by books, it was hard not to feel overwhelmed.

Never underestimate the public's desire to get something for nothing.

Before you finish that sentence, I want you to think about what a promise from me costs and what you're willing to pay for it.

We all did our part to bring about the end of the world.

The Darkling slumped back in his chair. "Fine," he said with a weary shrug. "Make me your villain.

Now, darkness was nothing to me, and I knew that soon death would seem like a gift.

I like to have powerful enemies. Makes me feel important.

He'd expected more complaints, but even Wylan had simply put his head down and walked. They're all survivors, Matthias understood. They adapt.

Know that I loved you. Know that it was not enough.

It was a calculated risk."
"It was cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best. Believe me, I know the difference.

No mourners," Jesper said as he tossed his rifle to Rotty. "No funerals," the rest of the Dregs murmured in reply.

Angry wears off. I needed you righteous.

How could he be so cruel and still so human?

Usually people don't start hating each other until a week into the job, but you two have a head start.

They fear you as I once feared you," he said. "As you once feared me. We are all someone's monster, Nina.

Perfect night for tearing a hole in the universe, no?

- I have principles.
- That means "If i can be difficult, I will".

Saints!" I swore. "I forgot how often I want to stab you.

It's a great honor," said Fedyor. "To save a life. You saved many.

I want to kiss you," Nikolai said. "But I won't. Not until you're thinking of me instead of trying to forget him.

One minute he made her blush and the next he made her want to commit murder.

That, Kuwei, is the sound that death makes when she comes calling.

I don't know what's wrong with me. it's just so easier to kill people than take care of them goodreads six of crows

Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.

Do not be afraid. Fear is how they control you. There's so much in the world you don't have to be afraid of, if you would only open your eyes.

Memories were a luxury for other children, not the Keramzin orphans.

We are all someone's monster.

People, particularly big men carrying big rifles, don't expect lip from a scrawny thing like me. They always look a bit dazed when they get it.

Another demon. This one walked with soft feet like she'd drifted in from the next world and no one had the good sense to send her back.

No matter the height of the mountain, the climbing is the same.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Ketterdam is made of monsters. I just happen to have the longest teeth.

Rich men want to believe they deserve every penny they've got, so they forget what they owe to chance.

No Mourners.
No Funerals.

Close your eyes!"
"You can't kiss me from down there, Wylan."
"Just do it!

You had a home, and you put a wrecking ball through the front door. Don't look for sympathy from me.

Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.

Sturmhond had a way of talking that made me want to shoot someone. Preferably him.

He watches her the way Harshaw watches fire. Like he'll never have enough of her. Like he's trying to capture what he can before she's gone.

Promise not to kick me again, and I'll promise not to kiss you again," he said.
"I only kicked you because you kissed me!

She would have her ship and he would have his city.

We all die. Not everyone dies for a reason.