Quotes by Scott Lynch

“Jean grinned down at her, and she handed him something in a small silk bag.'What's this?''Lock of my hair, ' she said. 'Meant to give it to you days ago, but we got busy with all the raiding. You k...”

“Get used to gaps in your comprehension, said Sabetha. The rest of us certainly have.”

“Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.-You're just making ...”

“We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!”

“Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.”

“I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”

“If you want to write a negative review, don't tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kr”

“I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!”

“I assure you that in all matters of discretion not involving food, we make etiquette tutors look like slobbering barbarians.”

“A glass poured to air for the one who sits with us unseen; the patron and protector, the Crooked Warden, the Father of Necessary Pretexts. Thanks for deep pockets poorly guarded. Thanks for watchme...”

“Yes," said Locke."Yes, Master Ibelius. I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.”

“To us richer and cleverer than everyone else!”

“Didn't Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?""The what?""The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.""What...”

“It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit life out here can be.”

“The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.”

“He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on ...”

“Youll pardon me, he finally said, if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my bac...”

“What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king”

“For Calo, Galdo, and Bug”

“Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. "- Hello, you monstrous little necessity". "...”