Quotes from Scott Lynch

Sorcery's impressive enough, but it's their fucking attitude that makes them such a pain. And that's why, when you find yourself face to face with one, you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'" .... "NICE BIRD, asshole," said Locke.

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

If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them." "If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo. "And me," said Conte "Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake.

Nervy little Shades' Hill purse-clutcher, thinking you can keep me in the dark. What plan?" "The plan to steal a corpse." "Ahem. Anything else you'd like to tell me about it?" "It's brilliant.

The difference between honest and dishonest commerce is that when an honest man or woman of business ruins someone, they don't have the courtesy to cut their throat to finish the affair.

Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.

It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming.

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

Lies go out, but the truth stays home.

Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.

Interesting," said Sabetha, "that I mention my own feelings, and you seem to think that what I'm after is reassurance concerning your perceptions.

If only this city's entire population of lurking assholes shared one set of balls, so I could kick it repeatedly.

Sloppy idiot," Sabetha muttered at last. "You're trying to be charming. Well, I do not choose to be charmed by you, Locke Lamora.

Your calculations are off. This merits a triple fuckdamn at least.

I'm very pleased. Very, very pleased. But I really must ask—why the hell have men and women been throwing money in my kettle for the past half hour, telling me they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza?" "It's because they're sorry for what happened in the Videnza," said Galdo.

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

I'm going to put that fucker in the dirt as deeply as any man who's ever been murdered, ever since the world began.

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

The functionaries in the courtyard of the Palace threw open their wooden shutters and settled in for a long day of saying "fuck off in the name of the duke" to all comers.

I have only two wishes," said Jean. "The first is for strong coffee, and the second is for stronger coffee.

What is government but theft by consent? You'll be moving in a society of kindred spirits.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?" "One that has something better," said Locke. "The stealing was more the point for us than the keeping; if the keeping had been so fine, we would have found something to fucking do with it all.

I think I can stand up, though!" He demonstrated the questionable optimism of this pronouncement by falling on his face.

Gods. So this is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch.