When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.
Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves.
“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
“Maybe the one real advantage to getting older is that you have the time to pull your head a little bit farther out of your ass.”
“What do you think of the old boy?" said Jean."He's got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat", said Locke, "but if I get killed in the next six weeks, I want him to speak at my funeral.”
“A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything's finally in the right place.”
“What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?''Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did yo...”
“You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.”
“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”
“The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject...”
“My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.”
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What Ive learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders ones reality to the person to whom one lies, making tha...”
“Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
“Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadnt done anything wrong.”