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Land has its pirates, same as the sea, — Scott Lynch

Good. Well. Shit." Locke rubbed his gloved hands together. "I guess that's that. I'm all out of rhetorical flourishes. — Scott Lynch

There was no point in stealing well or wisely if the loot couldn't be stashed somewhere safe. — Scott Lynch

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily they respond to real control. — Scott Lynch

I desire you as deeply as I ever have, but I understand that the fervor of a desire is irrelevant to its justice. — Scott Lynch

You're my favorite complication. — Scott Lynch

If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea. — Scott Lynch

It smelled something like a keg of bad beer overturned in a mortician's storage room on a hot summer's day. — Scott Lynch

It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people. What — Scott Lynch

We may need to ready ourselves to repel boarders." "With what? One stiletto and hurtful insinuations about their mothers? — Scott Lynch

When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite. — Scott Lynch

Gentlemen Bastards." hissed Locke, "do not abandon one another, and we do not run when we owe vengeance. — Scott Lynch

Well, the gods love a man who laughs at hardship." "Hardship is boring as all hell. Gotta find laughs if you can't stay drunk, — Scott Lynch

I didn't promise you shit. My dead friends, on the other hand
I made them certain promises I intend to keep. — Scott Lynch

I wouldn't call it looming, madam. Some of us simply aren't built for looming, said Locke. — Scott Lynch

That sounds dangerous,'said Jean.
'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.'
'We?'
'We. — Scott Lynch

You know who else thought lightly of them, once? The Falconer. — Scott Lynch

So, uh, just to be clear," said Calo, "none of us are going to be fighting Jean?" "Not unless you're inconceivably stupid. — Scott Lynch

I'm surprised you agreed to let me pour the wine. — Scott Lynch

Actually not bad at all. Tastes minty, very refreshing."
"A worthy epitaph," said Jean — Scott Lynch

Crooked Warden," said Locke, "men are stupid. Protect us from ourselves. If you can't, let it be quick and painless. — Scott Lynch

They kissed for the sort of endless moment that only exists between lovers whose lips are still new territory to one another. — Scott Lynch

To us - richer and cleverer than everyone else! — Scott Lynch

The best disguises were those that were poured out of the heart rather than painted on the face. — Scott Lynch

Come, then! Face Ravelle! The gods have sent your doom, motherfuckers! — Scott Lynch

Well then," said Locke. "Now that we've all realized precisely how tough we'll never be, let's stand on what we have. — Scott Lynch

Live snakes?' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-'
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up. — Scott Lynch

Feeling human again?" said Locke.
"this brew could make a dead eunuch piss lightnign" said Jean. — Scott Lynch

If only this city's entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly. — Scott Lynch

I mean, it's not calling me 'Locke.' It knows my real name. — Scott Lynch

And will they all hang with with you, for fellowship,and split death into equal shares like loot?"
"I am not caught yet, — Scott Lynch

May they all be stricken with the screaming fire-shits. He sipped his — Scott Lynch

If I could just somehow let you see yourself through my eyes. I guarantee your feet would never touch the ground again. — Scott Lynch

I can neither confirm nor deny you are a sneaky, sneaky bitch. — Scott Lynch

You'd have to take your shoes and breeches off to count to twenty-one! — Scott Lynch

Throwing blondes at Locke Lamora was not unlike throwing lettuce at sharks. — Scott Lynch

All apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends. — Scott Lynch

I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope. — Scott Lynch

This man is my boatswain. — Scott Lynch

I don't expect life to make sense," he said after a few moments, "but it could certainly be pleasant if it would stop kicking us in the balls. — Scott Lynch

He lay there shaking in the light of the red lamps, in a silent hall, alone with his triumph, unable to move and bleeding to death. — Scott Lynch

No, Mistress of Doubts, I've brought you here to this secluded corner of the city for the nefarious purpose of cooking your dinner myself. — Scott Lynch

If the whole things goes to shit, just remember to throw yourself down the damn waterfall."
"I'll cover your back, the sharp and bloody way. — Scott Lynch

I am the king idiot," he muttered, "of all the world's fucking idiots. — Scott Lynch

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here ... until Jean shows up. — Scott Lynch

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning — Scott Lynch

I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little. — Scott Lynch

Manners that would keep you starving are no manners worth respecting. — Scott Lynch

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes. — Scott Lynch

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. — Scott Lynch

Crooked Warden," said Chains. "Just this morning I was suffering from the delusion that I was handing out the educations here. — Scott Lynch

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair. — Scott Lynch

What is government but theft by consent? — Scott Lynch

There's no talking sense to sentiment, — Scott Lynch

Interesting," said Sabetha, "that I mention my own feelings, and you seem to think that what I'm after is reassurance concerning your perceptions. — Scott Lynch

You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. — Scott Lynch

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind — Scott Lynch

Blessed is the one who aids a thief, hides a thief, revenges a thief, and remembers a thief, for they shall inherit the night. — Scott Lynch

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. — Scott Lynch

If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor? — Scott Lynch

We go now," said Locke, "or I leave you here to die. Understanding is a luxury; you don't get to have it. Sorry. — Scott Lynch

What thieves of wonder are these poor senses. — Scott Lynch

We carry your precious misery with us like a holy fucking relic. — Scott Lynch

To live the life the gods have given you, you must clutch wisely, then run. Run like the houds of hell on a sinner's scent! — Scott Lynch

Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time. — Scott Lynch

You're the complication I want more than anything else. You're my favorite complication. No — Scott Lynch

I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks. — Scott Lynch

What's the n-never-fail universal apology?"
"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money. — Scott Lynch

Fling arrows at all the strange things you see out here, and all you do is run out of arrows. — Scott Lynch

Locke sighed.
'So this is winning,' he said.
'It is,' replied Jean.
'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke. — Scott Lynch

Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying - it seems they never die at all. — Scott Lynch

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?"
"One that has something better," said Locke. — Scott Lynch

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison. — Scott Lynch

Sloppy idiot," Sabetha muttered at last. "You're trying to be charming. Well, I do not choose to be charmed by you, Locke Lamora. — Scott Lynch

Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not? — Scott Lynch

Set foot in our house again," said Sofia, "and you'll become a permanent feature in my laboratory. — Scott Lynch

But you didn't die."
"Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years. — Scott Lynch

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

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

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf. — Scott Lynch

You're a lever and a fulcrum, you two, looking for a city to turn upside down. — Scott Lynch

Begging everyone's pardon," said Big Konar, "but it ain't polite to have an argument if nobody else knows what the fuck you're arguing about. — Scott Lynch

In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams — Scott Lynch

The ghouls leered at her, unbreathing, their flesh crisply necrotic like rice paper pressed over old oozing wounds. — Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone ... not even to ourselves. — Scott Lynch

That's great, Jean. I'm not just exiled; I'm being plumped up for slaughter. — Scott Lynch

Sad day, my loves, a proper tragedy. But when the milk's gone bad you might as well look forward to cheese, hmm? — Scott Lynch

Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?"
"On occasion," said Locke. "There are contrary opinions. — Scott Lynch

His view of the sky spun first left then right, as though the world were trying on strange new angles for his approval. — Scott Lynch

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass. — Scott Lynch

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats. — Scott Lynch

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug — Scott Lynch

Congratulations! We're reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari! — Scott Lynch

Not everything that's inevitable is regrettable. — Scott Lynch

The world had a fragile liquid quality, running at the edges and spinning on previously unrevealed axes. — Scott Lynch

You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains. — Scott Lynch

You are! There ain't no Thirteenth! Ain't naught but the Twelve, that's truth! Yeah, I been to Verrar a couple times, met up with lads and lasses — Scott Lynch

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife — Scott Lynch

You unfailingly omnibothersome bitch. — Scott Lynch

You needed a bath," Jean interrupted. "You were covered in self-pity. — Scott Lynch