The Crows being comedic gold.
• The ghost conversation
• “Jesper gave Kaz a cheery wave. Kaz’s expression didn’t change.”
• “Always hit where the mark isn’t looking”.
Wylan: “Who’s Mark?”
• Kaz is like a hive of bees in your dresser drawer.
• Matthias:“You’re all horrible”.
• Wylan is a flautist who fell in with bad company
• Kaz brain shutting down when he saw Inej in the sunlight and him claiming that birds don’t have manners.
• “Saints, Kaz, you actually look happy”. “Don’t be ridiculous.” But there was no mistaking it. “Kaz Brekker was grinning like an idiot.”
• “This many people having fun might have shocked the fjerdan right out of you.”
• Kaz being a nervous wreck because of Alys
• “You don’t have enough money to but her waffles.” “Quiet we’re in a library!”
•“I will turn your teeth inside out!” “That’s not even possible!”
• “You can find your way to Ravka or Matthias grandmothers house for all I care.” “ leave my grandmother out of this!”
• “Can’t we enter as performers? Wylan kills it on the flute! “
• “Moose is probably your native tongue.”
• They had blown up the lab. Kaz had not told them to blow up the lab.
• “I was shot!” He screamed. He had not been shot.
• “You sounds so young where are your parents” Wylan and Jesper bursting out laughing.
• Pay someone to pay someone to pay someone…..
• “This is Wylan the best demolition expert in the barrel.”
• I. Should. Let. You. Die.
• Remember? 3 million Kruge? Kaz eyes cleared. “ 4 million.”
• “Tiny and ferocious just like you.”
• “You couldn’t look guiltier if you were performing the role of thief #3 in a Penny play in Oststave” (that’s weirdly specific Kaz)
• “Who wants to but a coat in the dead of night?” “Tourists!”
• “He has a very soothing baritone.”
• Kaz saying Kuwei needs a unicorn to guarantee his safety.
• “I’d prefer a pair of sable lined swimming trunks…”
• Matthias thinking that they could fake a pregnancy but wouldn’t be able to fake an actual birth but then he was like “well, I would put anything past Kaz at this point.”
• The Wyvil (don’t lick wyvil)
• Inej making a bow. “Whatever you say, Llewelyn”
• Forget Kaz’ planning, Nina and Jesper are going to flirt Ketterdam into submission.
• “That’s when the tree teaches you the secret handshake.”
• Kaz embarrassed teenage boy acting.
• "Hold up the book so we don't have to look at your ugly face." “My face has character.”
• Kaz and Jespers brawl.
• How they acted as guilty as children after Colm broke up their fight.
• Wylan and Kaz “crashing” Van Ecks dinner party.
• “I’ll tell Nina you kissed Matthias - with tongue.”
• What is he doing?” asked Matthias.
“Performing an ancient Zemeni ritual,” Kaz said.
“Really?”
“No.”
• “Do you know what Van Eck’s problem is?”
“No honor?” said Matthias.
“Rotten parenting skills?” said Nina.
“Receding hairline?” offered Jesper.
• “Kaz can pick the locks,” said Wylan.
“No,” said Kaz, “I can’t.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever heard those words leave your lips,” said Nina. “Say it again, nice and slow
• Kaz negotiated his way out of the womb.
• It was a calculated risk.”
“It was cross-your-fingers-and-hope-for-the-best. Believe me, I know the difference.
• Pick up the pace,” Kaz said, eyeing his watch.
“If I spill a single drop of this, it will burn straight through the floor onto my father’s dinner guests.”
“Take your time.”
• “The leg was asking for it!”
• “Is it that bad?” “No you just have really ugly feet.”
• Wylan being jealous (like threatening to throw Kuwei into the canals)
• Ninas cookie envy
• Nina making fun of Kaz haircut and him being super self conscious about it.
• Scheming face? Definitely!
• “I don’t like it.” - “But to be fair, Matthias. You don’t really like much.”
• “Jogs the liver!”
• “Trust me Nina!” “I wouldn’t trust you tying my shoes without stealing the laces.”
• “We’ll all have waffles. And whiskey. If this doesn’t come off no one wants to be around me sober.
• Nina: ”The dead request five more minutes!”
• The sugar incident (“Not for my coffee you podge!”)
• Kuwei pretending not to understand Kerch.
• “We have a tank and mount!”
• Wylan mouthing “no, no, no!” In panicking after Alys wanted to sing.
• The Ketterdam handshake aka threatening someone with a gun
• Nina using “Matthias” as a curse word. “Don’t be a Matthias!”
• Kaz: ”Of course you don’t like speculation. You like things you can see. Like piles of snow and benevolent tree gods.”
• Matthias the big brooding yellow tulip.
• They all looked at Matthias. “This is where you tell us how awful we are,” she whispered.
• “This city is even worse than it was described in the travel guide!”
• Nina: “They call me Princess Ilse of Engelsberg.”
Matthias: “There is no Princess of Engelsberg, it’s a fishing town.”
Nina shrugged.
• “You have crumbs in your cleavage”
• Nina wanting to bring Kaz a pair of floral embroidered gloves from little Ravka.
• “We do not take orders from Kerch street rats with dubious haircuts.”
• Joost had two problems: the moon and his mustache. (This is just an absurd line)
• Nina giggled. “You are in so much trouble.”Jesper scowled. “Matthias, Nina let Cornelis Smeet grope her bottom.”
• “You heard right, stronger than Wylan.”
• Kaz looking like a young priest trying to preach to some circus performers.
• Jesper hinting that you grow as big as the farm you own.
• „Me?“, asked Wylan. „No, the idiot behind you.“, said Kaz. “Come on!”
• Kaz suggesting that Alys finds a young wealthy prince.
• Kuwei drawing Jespers face over and over instead of helping Wylan to do … you know science-y stuff.
• Alys torturing the crows
• Inej breaking van Ecks nose and laughing hysterically
• “Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honour of acquiring me a new hat?”
@fragile-resilience noted that I forgot the great conversation when Nina declared she likes Matthias more than waffles and Mattias knew better and told her not to say things she does not mean.
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