Цитаты из аудиокниги «Шестерка воронов», страница 14

... - Завжди на крок попереду, чи не так?

- Якщо йдеться про тебе, Ґілзе, я б сказав, що відірвався ще на старті.

"Nina -" Inej murmured. "Don't you start in on me." "It will all work out. Let Kaz do what he does best." "He's horrible." "But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot. You know what he is." "Me? Why?" "I don't know yet. I just am."

" if it were a trick, I'd promise you safety. I'd offer you happiness. I don't know if that exists in the Barrel, but you'll find none of it with me." For some reason, those words had comforted her. Better terrible truths than kind lies.

"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.

Inej had once offered to teach him how to fall. "The trick is not getting knocked," he'd told her with a laugh. "No, Kaz," she said, "the trick is in getting back up.

"What do you want then?". The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voice in my head silenced forever. But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. You, Inej. You.

"I can hear the change in Kay's breathing when he looks at you.' "You ... you can?" "It catches every time, like he's never seen you before."

He needed to tell her... what ? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.

She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.

Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flowers, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns you heart.