Six of Crows

Six of Crows

by

Leigh Bardugo

Kuwei Yul-Bo Character Analysis

Bo Yul-Bayur’s teenaged son, Kuwei, is the person actually in Fjerdan custody—Bo Yul-Bayur is dead. Yul-Bayur accidentally created jurda parem to protect Kuwei, who’s an Inferni Grisha. Kuwei doesn’t know exactly what his father did to create parem, but the Fjerdans still force him to work on recreating the formula. But Kuwei stalls to try to protect Grisha, including himself, from the dangerous drug. Kuwei willingly goes with Nina and Matthias, blowing up his Fjerdan laboratory in the process.

Kuwei Yul-Bo Quotes in Six of Crows

The Six of Crows quotes below are all either spoken by Kuwei Yul-Bo or refer to Kuwei Yul-Bo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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).
Chapter 37: Nina Quotes

If you wanted to kill a vine, you didn’t just keep cutting it back. You tore it from the ground by the roots. And yet her hands were shaking. Wasn’t this the way drüskelle thought? Destroy the threat, wipe it out, no matter that the person in front of you was innocent.

“Nina,” Matthias said softly, “he’s just a kid. He’s one of us.”

One of us. A boy not much younger than she was, caught up in a war he hadn’t chosen for himself. A survivor.

Related Characters: Matthias Helvar (speaker), Nina Zenik, Kuwei Yul-Bo, Bo Yul-Bayur
Page Number: 392
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Chapter 38: Kaz Quotes

The voice of God. There was always truth in legend. Kaz had spent enough time building his own myth to know. He’d wondered where the water that fed the Ice Court’s moat and fountains came from, why the river gorge was so very deep and wide. As soon as Nina had described the drüskelle initiation ritual, he’d known: the Fjerdan stronghold hadn’t been built around a great tree but around a spring. Djel, the wellspring, who fed the seas and rains, and the roots of the sacred ash.

Related Characters: Kaz Brekker, Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar, Kuwei Yul-Bo
Related Symbols: The Sacred Ash
Page Number: 400
Explanation and Analysis:
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
Explanation and Analysis:
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Kuwei Yul-Bo Quotes in Six of Crows

The Six of Crows quotes below are all either spoken by Kuwei Yul-Bo or refer to Kuwei Yul-Bo. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Greed Theme Icon
).
Chapter 37: Nina Quotes

If you wanted to kill a vine, you didn’t just keep cutting it back. You tore it from the ground by the roots. And yet her hands were shaking. Wasn’t this the way drüskelle thought? Destroy the threat, wipe it out, no matter that the person in front of you was innocent.

“Nina,” Matthias said softly, “he’s just a kid. He’s one of us.”

One of us. A boy not much younger than she was, caught up in a war he hadn’t chosen for himself. A survivor.

Related Characters: Matthias Helvar (speaker), Nina Zenik, Kuwei Yul-Bo, Bo Yul-Bayur
Page Number: 392
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 38: Kaz Quotes

The voice of God. There was always truth in legend. Kaz had spent enough time building his own myth to know. He’d wondered where the water that fed the Ice Court’s moat and fountains came from, why the river gorge was so very deep and wide. As soon as Nina had described the drüskelle initiation ritual, he’d known: the Fjerdan stronghold hadn’t been built around a great tree but around a spring. Djel, the wellspring, who fed the seas and rains, and the roots of the sacred ash.

Related Characters: Kaz Brekker, Nina Zenik, Matthias Helvar, Kuwei Yul-Bo
Related Symbols: The Sacred Ash
Page Number: 400
Explanation and Analysis:
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
Explanation and Analysis: