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.

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.

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!

Touch paper only once.

Judge character by behavior.

You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time.

I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.

She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.