Crooked Kingdom: Book 2 (Six of Crows)

“You’d be surprised at what a man will do to avoid paying taxes.”

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.

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

The boy beside her.

The future before her. Anything was possible.

“On the seas and in the city. One by one.”

“Brick by brick,”

“Say you’ll return.”

“I’m not done with Ketterdam.” She hadn’t known she meant it until

she’d said the words.

“That berth

belongs to you too. It will always be there when—if you want to come

back.”

Whenever he sat down to try to get some work done, he’d

find his eyes straying to the window ledge.

“You’re my son, Jesper. I can’t protect you. Maybe I shouldn’t have tried.

But I will be there even when you falter. Every time.”

My wits are sharper—”

“You can only sharpen a blade so far,” Kaz said