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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

What we do determines much of what happens in the world to come, not just for ourselves, but for those around us.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

Don't get mad. Get everything. - (on divorce).

After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?’

I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.

The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?