fever dream

favourite quotes from crooked kingdom: 1/?

he was going to break my legs. would you have come for me then, kaz? when I couldn’t scale a wall or walk a tightrope? when I wasn’t the Wraith anymore?

          all of it there and then gone. he was drowning in the harbor. her limbs were a corpse’s limbs. her eyes were dead and staring disgust and longing roiled in his gut.
          he lurched backward, and pain shot through his bad leg. his mouth was on fire. the room swayed. he braced himself against the wall, trying to breathe. inej was on her feet, moving toward him, her face concerned. he held up a hand to stop her.  
          “don’t.” 
↳ crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo, chapter 26

minimalist posters: six of crows

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.

“You still may die in the Dregs.”
Inej’s dark eyes had glinted. “I may. But I’ll die on my feet with a knife in my hand.”

My mother is Ketterdam. She birthed me in the harbor. And my father is profit. I honor him daily.

“Fate has plans for us all,” Inej said quietly.
“And sometimes fate needs a little assistance.”
Inej frowned. “I thought you and Nina chose four outbreak site on the Staves.” Kaz straightened his cuffs. “I also had her stop at the Menagerie.” She smiled then, her eyes red, her cheeks scattered with some kind of dust. It was a smile he thought he might die to earn again.

They’d been two farm boys, missing their father, lost in this city. That was how Pekka got them.

 When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.