Six of Crows

Six of Crows

by

Leigh Bardugo

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Tailors are Corporalki Grisha who can manipulate the body’s appearance; they’re essentially makeup artists.

Tailor Quotes in Six of Crows

The Six of Crows quotes below are all either spoken by Tailor or refer to Tailor. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Greed Theme Icon
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Chapter 45: Kaz Quotes

After the battle in the Djerholm harbor, the merchling had come to Kaz to warn him that he couldn’t be used as leverage against his father. Wylan had been red-faced, barely able to speak the words of his supposed “affliction.” Kaz had only shrugged. Some men were poets. Some were farmers. Some were rich merchers. Wylan could draw a perfect elevation. He’d made a drill that could cut through Grisha glass from parts of a gate and scavenged bits of jewelry. So what if he couldn’t read?

Related Characters: Kaz Brekker, Wylan Van Eck, Van Eck, Kuwei Yul-Bo
Page Number: 450
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Tailor Term Timeline in Six of Crows

The timeline below shows where the term Tailor appears in Six of Crows. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5: Kaz
Trauma, the Past, and Moving Forward Theme Icon
...rather than killing or healing (which might make her too conspicuous and endanger her), she Tailors—changes people’s appearance—and alters people’s moods. The mercher she just saw lost his wife recently, and... (full context)
Chapter 19: Matthias
Friendship and Difference Theme Icon
Identity, Values, and Growing Up Theme Icon
...approaches Matthias with the key to his shackles and explains that Kaz wants her to tailor Matthias so he’s less recognizable. Matthias doesn’t like it, but he allows Nina to darken... (full context)
Chapter 45: Kaz
Greed Theme Icon
Friendship and Difference Theme Icon
The boy who looks like Kuwei is actually Wylan; Nina tailored Wylan to look like Kuwei before her jurda parem high waned, after Wylan told Kaz... (full context)