75 Six Of Crows Quotes For Teen Fantasy Readers

Moumita Dutta
Dec 12, 2023 By Moumita Dutta
Originally Published on Feb 18, 2021
Edited by Monisha Kochhar
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'Six of Crows', written by Leigh Bardugo, is set with an illicit background in a city called Ketterdam, which is mostly known for its crime and slums.

'Six of Crows' is a duology that encircles real-life issues with a spin of fantasy by Leigh Bardugo. With the release of this book duology, Leigh Bardugo broadens the content of the Grishaverse.

'Six of Crows' is about how six agile teenagers from a city of slums manage to carry out some heists and rescue the inventor of an illegal magical substance.

Wylan Van Eck, the main antagonist of the book, who is a part of the Bo Yul-Bayur, is an illicit scientist who is in an impenetrable prison for making illicit drugs. Leigh Bardugo's incredible duology comprises 'Six of Crows' and the 'Crooked Kingdom'.

The best 'Six of Crows' quotes are a blend of romance and action with meaning or matter and is perfect for reading together with someone who has interests in fantasies, ghosts, and monster.

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Best Quotes From 'Six Of Crows'

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Here are the best quotes from the book 'Six of Crows'. If you loved the book, you'll love these quotes.

1. "Do you have a different name for killing when you wear a uniform to do it?"

- Nina Zenik.

2. "Many boys will bring you flowers.

But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, 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 your heart."

- Inej's father.

3. “Men mock the gods until they need them, Kaz.”

- Inej Ghafa.

4. "She'd shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he'd ever known."

- Nina Zenik.

5. "She was tall and built like the figurehead of a ship carved by a generous hand."

- Nina Zenik.

6. "He's smarter than most of us put together, and he deserves a better father than you."

- Wylan Van Eck.

7. "Oh, Saints, you are something. The mark, the pigeon, the cozy, the fool you're looking to fleece."

- Jesper Fahey.

8. "She wouldn't wish love on anyone. It was the guest you welcomed and then couldn't be rid of."

- Nina Zenik.

9. "If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I'm going to get Wylan's ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost."

- Jesper Fahey.

10. "Kaz: What's the easiest way to steal a man 's wallet?

Inej: Knife to the throat?"

- Leigh Bardugo, 'Six of Crows'.

11. "Wherever he's hiding out, once you find him, letting him live would be the most outrageous kind of irresponsibility. My answer is no."

- Nina Zenik.

12. "Maybe your tutors didn't cover this lesson, but you do not argue with a man covered in blood and a knife up his sleeve."

-Jesper Fahey.

13. "I'm fine. You're the one who got stabbed. I don't know what's wrong with me."

- Nina Zenik.

14. "I expect you'll see a change."

- Nina Zenik.

15. "There are rumors, but they sound like nonsense to me."

- Nina Zenik.

16. "He's a person like any other, driven by greed and pride and pain. You should understand that better than anyone."

- Nina Zenik.

17. "I don't know anything about it. He doesn't include me in those discussions."

- Wylan.

18. "Only one woman loves apple blossoms in a blue cup. Only one woman loves wild geraniums."

- Inej's father.

19. "I wouldn't trust you to tie my shoes without stealing the laces, Kaz."

- Nina Zenik.

Witty 'Six Of Crows' Kaz Quotes

Kaz Brekker plays a major part as leader of the Dregs and several other groups as well. This is a fun and powerful character who is worth your time.

20. "A man doesn't need a bet to get ideas, Nina."

- Kaz Brekker.

21. "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."

- Kaz Brekker.

22. "The easiest way to steal a man's wallet is to tell him you're going to steal his watch."

- Kaz Brekker.

23. "I want you to stay. I want you to...I want you."

- Kaz Brekker.

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

- Kaz Brekker.

25. "Money like that is more curse than gift."

- Kaz Brekker.

26. "The brain is just another organ."

- Kaz Brekker.

27. "That's what he wants, not what he needs."

- Kaz Brekker.

28. "You've cheated death too many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man."

- Kaz Brekker.

29. "I'm a businessman, he'd told her. No more, no less."

- Kaz Brekker.

30. "No, Inej. Greed bows to me. It is my servant and my lever."

- Kaz Brekker.

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

- Kaz Brekker.

32. "We'll be kings and queens, Inej."

- Kaz Brekker.

33. "There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong. And there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken."

- Kaz Brekker.

34. "And that's what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have."

- Kaz Brekker.

35. "I trade in information; the things men do when they think no one is looking. Shame holds more value than coin ever can."

- Kaz Brekker.

'Six Of Crows' Quotes By Matthias Helvar

Matthias Helvar, a prisoner at Hellgate and a former member of Drüskelle from Fjerda was rescued by Kaz, Inej, Nina, and Jesper. Here quotes from the book 'Six of Crows' by Leigh Bardugo and are all by the character Matthias Helvar.

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

- Matthias Helvar.

37. "The life you live, the hate you feel—it's poison. I can drink it no longer."

- Matthias Helvar.

38. "The water hears and understands. The ice does not forgive."

- Matthias Helvar, Chapter 20.

39. "You're all horrible."

- Matthias Helvar.

40. "I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath."

- Matthias Helvar.

41. "Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet."

- Matthias Helvar.

42. "My ghost won't associate with your ghost."

- Matthias Helvar.

'Six Of Crows' Inej Quotes

Inej Ghafa is a member of the Dregs and a strong, vigilant character in the book 'Six of Crows'. Here are quotes that have deep meaning and are fun to read.

43. "Thank you for keeping me in this world when fate seemed determined to drag me to the next. I owe you a life debt."

- Inej Ghafa.

44. "Greed is your God, Kaz."

- Inej Ghafa.

45. "Give me a reason to stay."

- Inej Ghafa.

46. "I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all."

- Inej Ghafa.

47. "Better terrible truths than kind lies."

- Inej Ghafa

48. "You're about to be rich, Kaz. What will you do when there's no more blood to shed or vengeance to take?"

- Inej Ghafa.

49. "Even if Kaz isn't sorry, he can pretend. He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being."

- Inej Ghafa.

50. "I may. But I'll die on my feet with a knife in my hand."

- Inej Ghafa

51. "A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him."

- Inej Ghafa.

Memorable 'Six Of Crows' Quotes

These quotes from the book are some of the most poignant. If you are someone who put the work, time, and energy into reading the special book, these quotes will definitely end up sparking some fire of inspiration within you.

52. "No, little brother. No one is stronger. You've cheated death too many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man."

- Leigh Bardugo.

53. "It's just so much easier to kill people than take care of them."

- Leigh Bardugo.

54. "You're passable at demo. You're excellent at hostage."

- Leigh Bardugo.

55. "I'm going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I'm going to get my girl."

- Leigh Bardugo.

56. "No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck."

- Leigh Bardugo.

57. "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."

- Leigh Bardugo.

58. "It was the only piece of his past that he could not forge into something dangerous."

- Leigh Bardugo.

59. "She knew Pekka Rollins' name well. He was the reigning king of the Barrel, the owner of not one but two gambling palaces—one luxurious, the other catering to sailors with less to line their pockets."

- Leigh Bardugo.

60. "The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true."

- Leigh Bardugo.

61. "But there was no beauty here, no real merriment or joy, just transactions, people seeking escape or some colorful oblivion, some dream of decadence that they could wake from whenever they wished."

- Leigh Bardugo.

62. "She was glad for the peace of the docks, but they seemed almost too still after the noise and chaos of the Barrel."

- Leigh Bardugo.

63. "Every one of his senses felt like it was on fire. Definitely better than a winning streak at the tables."

- Leigh Bardugo.

64. "Brick by brick, I will destroy you."

- Leigh Bardugo.

65. "Facts are for the unimaginative."

- Leigh Bardugo.

66. "Though he'd trusted her with his life countless times, it felt much more frightening to trust her with his shame."

- Leigh Bardugo.

67. "You wouldn't know a good time if it sidled up to you and stuck a lollipop in your mouth."

- Leigh Bardugo.

68. "None of us move on without a backward look. We move on, always carrying with us those we have lost."

- Leigh Bardugo.

69. "Six people, but a thousand ways this insane plan could go wrong."

- Leigh Bardugo.

70. "She had her aim now, her heart had direction, and though it hurt to know the path led away from him, she could endure it."

- Leigh Bardugo.

71. "She was not a lynx or a spider or even the Wraith. She was Inej Ghafa, and her future was waiting above."

- Leigh Bardugo.

72. "If your God is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one."

- Leigh Bardugo.

73. "I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"

- Leigh Bardugo.

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

- Leigh Bardugo.

75. "A secret's not like a coin. It doesn't keep its value in the spending."

- Leigh Bardugo.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for six of crows quotes then why not take a look at 'The Hobbit' quotes, or 'Looking for Alaska' quotes.

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Written by Moumita Dutta

Bachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

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Moumita DuttaBachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

A content writer and editor with a passion for sports, Moumita has honed her skills in producing compelling match reports and stories about sporting heroes. She holds a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Calcutta University, alongside a postgraduate diploma in Sports Management.

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