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

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.

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

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.

God is only where you let Him in

Time reveals character.

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

People should not expect to reap if they have not sown.

We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

I'd commit suicide, if I could do it without killing myself.

For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.