YA LIT MEME: [4/10] books or series ➸ six of crows by leigh bardugo

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

character posters: Kaz Brekker

You duped us out of everything. We ended up on the streets and then we died. Both of us in our own way. But only one of us was reborn.

“He stopped worrying about seeming normal, let people see a glimmer of the madness within him and let them guess at the rest. Someone got too close, he threw a punch. Someone dared to put hands on him, he broke a wrist, two wrists, a jaw. Dirtyhands, they called him. Haskell’s rabid dog. The rage inside him burned on and he learned to despise people who complained, who begged, who claimed they’d suffered. Let me teach you what pain looks like, he would say, and then he’d paint a picture with his fists.”