inej ghafa bot @inejghafabot

inej ghafa quotes from six of crows & crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo | dm to submit requests! —icon: @monolimeart Joined May 2021

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a year ago

On the high wire, she was beholden to no one, a creature without past or present, suspended between earth and sky.

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a year ago

“I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?” I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship. “I think so.”

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a year ago

The sun was out for once, and Inej had turned her face to it. Her eyes were shut, her oil-black lashes fanned over her cheeks.

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a year ago

She was the predator now, not Heleen in her peacock feathers, not any man who walked these streets.

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“He was going to break my legs,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “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?”

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a year ago

He hadn’t mentioned any big job to her. And why Pim? The thought shamed her a bit. She could almost hear her father’s voice: So eager to be Queen of the Thieves, Inej?

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a year ago

“Careful, Wraith. You’re ill-suited to the revenge game. I’m not sure your Suli Saints would approve.” “My Saints don’t like bullies.”

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a year ago

Could she tell her mother and father the truth? Would they understand all she’d done to survive, not just at the Menagerie, but every day since? Could she lay her head in her mother’s lap and be forgiven?

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a year ago

She always preferred to travel along the rooftops, out of sight, free from the shuffle of bodies. There, she felt most herself again—the girl she’d once been, someone who hadn’t had the sense to be afraid, who hadn’t known what cruelty the world could offer.

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inej ghafa bot @inejghafabot

a year ago

When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.

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a year ago

She wanted a storm – thunder, wind, a deluge. She wanted it to crash through Ketterdam’s pleasure houses, lifting roofs and tearing doors off their hinges.

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a year ago

She thought of her knives, hidden away aboard the Ferolind – maybe they could go to some other girl who dreamed of being dangerous. She whispered their names: Petyr, Marya, Anastasia, Vladimir, Lizabeta, Sankta Alina, martyred before she could turn eighteen.

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a year ago

“Don’t like boats. Bad memories.”

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a year ago

She knew how she sounded – stern, fussy, like an old crone making dire pronouncements from her porch. She didn’t like it, but she also knew she was right. Besides, old women must know something, or they wouldn’t live to gather wrinkles and yell from their front steps.

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a year ago

Inej pitied the boy who might die alone with no one to comfort him in his last hours or who might live and spend his life as an exile. But the night’s work wasn’t yet over, and the Wraith didn’t have time for traitors.

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a year ago

Inej cast a meaningful glance at his cane. “Have a long trip down,” she said, then leaped onto the banister, sliding from one flight to the next, slick as butter in a pan.