Day 3: Favorite Quote »
“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.” – Crooked Kingdom, Chapter 17.
crows remember human faces. they remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. and the people who wrong them too. they don’t forget. they tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.
Literature classics: The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
i have literally only just clocked that in this scene where alina is conjuring light into her hands, mal is cupping his hands around hers, aND NOW I’M FEELING ALL KINDS OF EXTRA EMOTION
Day 7: All of the Crows »
“The knowledge that they might never see each other again, that some of them—maybe all of them—might not survive this night hung heavy in the air. A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse.
Inej looked at her strange crew, barefoot and shivering in their soot-stained prison uniforms, their features limned by the golden light of the dome, softened by the mist that hung in the air.
What bound them together? Greed? Desperation? Was it just the knowledge that if one or all of them disappeared tonight, no one would come looking?” - Six of Crows, Chapter 28.
You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn’t true. I know a lot about love. I’ve seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate. It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves… You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful.
SIX OF CROWS APPRECIATION WEEK
↳ DAY ONE: FAVORITE CROW
[What do you believe in?] Myself. And you. And Jesper. My crows. […] Crows don’t just remember the faces of people who wronged them. They also remember those who were kind.