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Good. Well. Shit." Locke rubbed his gloved hands together. "I guess that's that. I'm all out of rhetorical flourishes.
Hardships are arbitrary, Locke. You never know which particular quality in yourself or a fellow is going to get you past them.
My, you are in a sad state. You believe you've been poisoned?" "No," said Locke with a cough. "I fell down some fucking stairs. What's it look like?
It smelled something like a keg of bad beer overturned in a mortician's storage room on a hot summer's day.
It's easy to prescribe remedies for our own weaknesses when they're comfortably ensconced in other people. What
When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.
Ah," said Jean, "but when a woman has your heart, she doesn't have poor moods. Only interesting moods ... and more interesting moods.
I didn't promise you shit. My dead friends, on the other hand
I made them certain promises I intend to keep.
I made them certain promises I intend to keep.
That sounds dangerous,'said Jean.
'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.'
'We?'
'We.
'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.'
'We?'
'We.
Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.
So, uh, just to be clear," said Calo, "none of us are going to be fighting Jean?" "Not unless you're inconceivably stupid.
Live snakes?' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-'
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.
'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.
Bearded peasant goes in one end of an alley, clean-shaven gentleman comes out the other? Really?" "It's a classic!
Liquor does this? Even after you're sober?" "A cruel joke, isn't it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.
All apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends.
As Chains had once said, feeling like you wanted desperately to die was fine evidence that you had yet to do so.
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.
I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.
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.
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.
"I'll cover your back, the sharp and bloody way.
Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can drink.
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.
We don't see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of nature.
How very comforting. If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing
So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.
Once a Big Lie was let out in the world, it seemed to grow on its own and needed little tending or worry to bend to the situation.
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb
It was easy to laugh at such conceits in full daylight. But night had a way of lending weight to phantasms.
I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.
The sky was a fading red and nothing remained of the day save for a line of molten gold slowly lowering on the western horizon.
And you're the son of his youngest. He has no other children. Oh, your father's dead, by the way. Fell off a horse two years ago.'
'Good to know.
'Good to know.
You're a difficult woman, Sabetha. But then, difficult women are the only ones worth falling in love with.
Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife
You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.
Sad day, my loves, a proper tragedy. But when the milk's gone bad you might as well look forward to cheese, hmm?
The ghouls leered at her, unbreathing, their flesh crisply necrotic like rice paper pressed over old oozing wounds.
In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams
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.
But you didn't die."
"Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years.
"Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years.
Sloppy idiot," Sabetha muttered at last. "You're trying to be charming. Well, I do not choose to be charmed by you, Locke Lamora.
Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying - it seems they never die at all.
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.
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
Their cold blue light shone through the silver curtains of river mist as streetlamps might glimmer through a smoke-grimed window
I'm not gong to kill you, said Locke
I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.
I'm going to play a little game I like to call 'Scream in pain until you answer my fucking questions.
Chains used to claim that there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated," said Locke.
Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.
I don't want to spend the rest of the day interrupting your questions, so I'm going to temporarily forget how to make words come out of my mouth.
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.
"'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.
Blessed is the one who aids a thief, hides a thief, revenges a thief, and remembers a thief, for they shall inherit the night.
Interesting," said Sabetha, "that I mention my own feelings, and you seem to think that what I'm after is reassurance concerning your perceptions.