Scott Lynch Quotes

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.

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

Cold walls do not a prison make, nor iron bands a bondsman.

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

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

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

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

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.

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

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

You can knock down kingdoms on a whim. What you need is someone to make sure you don't get hit by a carriage when you cross the street.

What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.

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

Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

Only one way to win when you're being chased by someone bigger and tougher than you. Turn straight around, punch their teeth out, and hope the gods are fond of you.

Are you smarter than a pig, Locke?” “On occasion,” said Locke. “There are contrary opinions.

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.

What is government but theft by consent?

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

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

I can’t name the poison that’s killing your friend. But the one that’s killing you is called hope.

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

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

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

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

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

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

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

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.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

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

It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid, ” said Locke. “Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

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!

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

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

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

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

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.