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

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.

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.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

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.

History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Don't get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we're old, nark conformists or something, but really, they're just conforming in their own ways. They're conforming to nonconformity.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.